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Builder uncertain whether an LLM reliability layer solves a real problem

A developer describes spending months building a reliability layer for LLM applications but remains unsure whether it addresses an actual market need, reflecting broader uncertainty in the LLM-tooling space about which reliability problems are worth solving.

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