Malou Madsen

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People love saying these are the “best years of our lives,” but they forget how much pressure comes with it. Grades, expectations, figuring out who you are, who

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Malou Madsen

@redladybug437347 · Jan 12, 2026

Lorenzo Bruch

@brownbear611345 · Jan 12, 2026 11:38 am

Building adaptive routing logic in Go for an Open source LLM gateway - Bifrost

Working on an LLM gateway (Bifrost)- Code is open source: [https://github.com/maxim-ai/bifrost](https://github.com/maxim-ai/bifrost), ran into an interesting problem: how do you route requests across multiple LLM providers when failures happen gradually?
Traditional load balancing assumes binary states – up or down. But LLM API degradations are messy. A region starts timing out, some routes spike in errors, latency drifts up over minutes. By the time it's a full outage, you've already burned through retries and user patience.
Static configs don't cut it. You can't pre-model which provider/region/key will degrade and how.
**The challenge:** build adaptive routing that learns from live traffic and adjusts in real time, with <10µs overhead per request. Had to sit on the hot path without becoming the bottleneck.
**Why Go made sense:**
* Needed lock-free scoring updates across concurrent requests
* EWMA (exponentially weighted moving averages) for smoothing signals without allocations
* Microsecond-level latency requirements ruled out Python/Node
* Wanted predictable GC pauses under high RPS
**How it works:** Each route gets a continuously updated score based on live signals – error rat

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Malou Madsen

@redladybug437347 · Jan 12, 2026

I'm starting to think I need to weigh the pros and cons of killing myself

It's like this:
I want to transition from gender to another. I've *been* wanting to do this for months, and I have a consultation set up so I can get my desired hormones sooner rather than later. I think that my family will accept me, and I currently live someplace where I can get the support I need.
But with things as they are in the world...bad things could happen to me. *Soon*. Just for even *thinking* about doing this, let alone trying to pass.
Understand that I don't feel violently dysphoric in my body. Rather, the inverse is simply *euphoric*. But do you know what I was doing before I started thinking about transitioning? Smoking weed and drinking as often as I could without getting violently ill (and I failed at that a few times). Note that the drinking and smoking had nothing to do with wanting to transition (or at least I don't think it did). Rather, my life had stalled. *Has* stalled, honestly. It's not as though nothing good happens to me...but it's going nowhere. I've run low on ambitions. I'm not interested in much. Even after starting antidepressants, at best I still felt *closed off* from having any passion for anything.
Switching genders, though? *That* excites me.

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