Infrastructure First: The Security Foundation Missing from LLM Engineering

As LLM engineering accelerates, developers are building sophisticated applications while overlooking foundational cloud security practices—leaving API keys exposed, failing to protect against prompt injection, and losing cost control. These aren't minor oversights; they represent genuine vulnerabilities that transform ambitious projects into production liabilities. The critical insight is that LLM systems require the same infrastructure rigor, secrets management, and observability as any other cloud service, built in from the start.