Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Apps: Verify First

After a 100,000-line LiteLLM wrapper and an upgrade that broke production, Respan rewrote its gateway around an Nginx-style core. We walk through the request path, passthrough rules and the trade-offs of a pre-alpha plugin system.

A 2026 arXiv paper scores research ideas on two axes, whether they make sense and whether anyone is positioned to propose them, and beats frontier LLMs on diversity.

A close read of Parrot's design: bot-free capture, a locally indexed knowledge base, per-call profiles, swappable models with visible costs, and the limits engineers should know before adopting it.