AI Letters #35 - Why We Built SynapseKit: The Framework We Deserve
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It was 3 AM and production was on fire. An LLM pipeline had cold-started on Lambda taking 30 seconds just to import dependencies, while the $99/month observability tool told us nothing useful. We'd chosen a "safe" framework with 100K stars and enterprise support—but we were fighting it as much as building with it. That moment led us to rebuild from first principles. Meet SynapseKit: 2 dependencies, async-native, full cost transparency, and Apache 2.0 forever.