A developer using dsh who needs frontier models for code or text tasks installs the plugin and calls the models directly, skipping per-platform sign-up and key configuration.
Signing up per platform, requesting keys, setting environment variables, or using paid model aggregation services and official free tiers.
Registering, managing keys and setting up billing across multiple models is repetitive work that solo developers and small teams find annoying; yet this friction is not a rigid pain, since most developers already have working paid or free channels.