My personal experience testing Maxim AI’s Bifrost gateway left me uneasy. Here’s what happened, what I learned, and why I’m putting security first in future projects. Note: This is my personal experience and my opinion based on what happened. I am not saying every AI gateway is bad, and I am not saying every team using Bifrost is doing something wrong. I am explaining why I personally do not trust this setup right now, especially as an independent developer testing tools with real API keys. How I got here I was contacted about writing a paid technical article on Bifrost, Maxim AI’s open-source AI gateway. The topic was interesting enough. Bifrost is built to sit between your application, coding agents, MCP tools, and model providers. Instead of calling OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, Gemini, or other providers directly from every tool, Bifrost gives you one gateway layer to route requests through. That sounds useful on paper.…