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Yucong Chen

Building FlintAPI — AI smart routing platform. Multi-model synthesis & intelligent model dispatch.

Location Hong Kong Joined Joined on  Personal website https://flintapi.ai github website

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A real consulting deliverable, unedited

A real consulting deliverable, unedited

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What an 81-second strategy deliverable actually looks like

What an 81-second strategy deliverable actually looks like

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Build a Multimodal App in an Afternoon with FlintAPI

Build a Multimodal App in an Afternoon with FlintAPI

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How Flint-Smart Routing Can Cut Your AI Bill

How Flint-Smart Routing Can Cut Your AI Bill

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The Chinese LLM Landscape in 2026: A Practical Guide

The Chinese LLM Landscape in 2026: A Practical Guide

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What we tell users when 9 of our 13 models are down

What we tell users when 9 of our 13 models are down

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Flint-Smart: The Model That Picks the Best Model

Flint-Smart: The Model That Picks the Best Model

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Why Your AI Stack Needs a Unified API in 2026

Why Your AI Stack Needs a Unified API in 2026

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DeepSeek V4 Pro on FlintAPI: Quick Start

DeepSeek V4 Pro on FlintAPI: Quick Start

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Selling tokens below cost — what a margin audit found in our own gateway

Selling tokens below cost — what a margin audit found in our own gateway

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What Chinese LLM APIs actually cost in 2026 (measured per 1M tokens)

What Chinese LLM APIs actually cost in 2026 (measured per 1M tokens)

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The character limit that silently killed our AI replies

The character limit that silently killed our AI replies

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Why our health check said "up" while the model was gone

Why our health check said "up" while the model was gone

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What actually broke when I put four Chinese LLM providers behind one API

What actually broke when I put four Chinese LLM providers behind one API

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How FlintAPI's Smart Router Decomposes Prompts and Picks the Right Model

How FlintAPI's Smart Router Decomposes Prompts and Picks the Right Model

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I Built an AI Router That Decomposes Your Prompt and Dispatches to the Best Model

I Built an AI Router That Decomposes Your Prompt and Dispatches to the Best Model

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Not Another Model Aggregator: How FlintAPI Uses Consulting-Grade Structured Thinking for Smart Routing

Not Another Model Aggregator: How FlintAPI Uses Consulting-Grade Structured Thinking for Smart Routing

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Real-Time API Protocols: WebSocket vs SSE vs gRPC

Real-Time API Protocols: WebSocket vs SSE vs gRPC

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Consulting-Grade Cloud Provider Analysis: AWS vs GCP for SaaS Startups

Consulting-Grade Cloud Provider Analysis: AWS vs GCP for SaaS Startups

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