I am reminded of this quote:
"If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." -J. Paul Getty
I can't complete opening an account with Capital One because I have prepaid wireless. When talking to customer service, they said this happens and there's no fix. Ubisoft Connect (their Steam competitor) also rejects it.
"Snowflake Inc. was founded in July 2012...by three data warehousing experts: Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Żukowski. Dageville and Cruanes previously worked as data architects at Oracle Corporation... "
Think of the model as a gigantic compiled binary where you send in strings in a certain format and get back a response. This is a web API wrapper for that so you only need an HTTP client instead of having to run something like llama.cpp yourself.
Anti-pattern #1 is funny considering several people have said this is exactly how several AWS services are implemented - one Lambda function. Your deployments are much simpler. We built an application using an approach like he described and once you get to 30+ functions, it becomes a hassle.
I've used these for over a decade with limited success. Their performance is very specific to your wiring and can be fouled up with lots of things. Mine was sometimes no faster than WiFi. MoCA (Ethernet over coax wiring like for cable/satellite TV) seems to work better.