Stockyard probes local-cloud handoff pain

This reads less like a launch and more like product discovery in a crowded infra category. Hybrid LLM stacks usually fail on operational glue and visibility, not because the underlying models cannot answer the prompt.

• –Stockyard's positioning already matches the ask: a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint with routing, tracing, cost controls, replay, and security built in.
• –The strongest signal in the thread is that users want one clean control plane, not a patchwork of proxy, observability, replay, and health tools.
• –The pushback calling out LiteLLM matters: the space is real, but differentiation will come from simplicity and setup friction, not a longer feature checklist.
• –Replay and side-by-side comparison are the most actionable features for deciding what stays local and what escalates to cloud.
• –Provider health matters, but only if it is tied to cost and latency data teams can actually act on.