#089 - The Middleman Reads Every Prompt

We Are Still Human · Oct 21, 2026 · 6m

Let's talk about the layer sitting between you and the machine — the one that reads every question you ask. Something moved into the middle of the AI stack, quietly enough that most people running AI inside a business don't know it's there. You stopped talking to a model directly. There's a gateway now. A router. A marketplace. An AI gateway bolted onto the cloud account you're already paying for. The pitch is good, and I want to say that plainly. One API instead of…This episode of WE ARE STILL HUMAN examines the human stakes behind the middleman reads every prompt — where AI, identity…