Built an API Fraud Detector After Getting Scammed — Here's How It Works

<p>Every fraud tool on the market — IPQS, Sift, DataDome — was built for a world where bots used datacenter IPs. That world is gone.</p> <p>Today, fraudsters use

<p>Hey folks! 👋<br /> As a solo developer building for the global market, balancing performance, shipping speed, and server costs is always a tricky triangle. Recently, I launched

<p>GPT-5.4 shipped on March 5. Seven weeks later, on April 23, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 — and the pace alone tells you something about where this race is headed. This isn't

<p>If you're building AI agents in production, you've probably wondered: <em>what's actually happening at runtime?</em> We spent six months finding out — and what we found changed

<p>How it works:</p> <p>Request arrives at an OpenAI-compatible endpoint<br /> Classifier detects task type + complexity<br /> Adaptive router picks the highest-scoring model for

<p>Most companies shipping AI have never once tried to break it.</p> <p>Not because they don't care about security. Because they assume the model handles it. The model was trained

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <h2>