The standard question among ordinary people and in tech circles almost always centres on a single, binary question: “Is there anything better than Claude at the mo?” A colleague of mine put this exact question to me. I don’t think they knew much about how models work. So it’s like asking ‘Is it there anything …
AI, AI models, API, best, better, computation, cost, efficiency, OpenRouter, OpenWebUI
Illegally Blonde: Lawyer or Liar
Captain Walker
Introduction In the cinematic lore of Legally Blonde, Elle Woods arrived at Harvard armed with scented stationery and confounded expectations through relentless graft. In October 2026, the White House briefing room witnessed an altogether less disciplined performance. Katie Zacharia managed precisely five days at the podium before her tenure crumbed under pressure of basic biographical …
America, deception, distortion, games, lawyer, liar, naked, politics, spin, Trump, USA
OpenRouter provider pinning in OpenWebUI
Captain Walker
Having tools does not mean you’re going to do great things. You may have a great car but cannot drive it well and get the best fuel economy from it? That depends on many things: your need for speed or acceleration, dead weight stored in the booth of our car, tyre pressure and regularity of …
AI, AI models, cache, cost, efficiency, miss, OpenRouter, OpenWebUI
An invitation to absolutely fawking nowhere or any where!
Well the last few weeks have been very heavy. I spent a ton of time investigating AI related issues. So this story – a true one anonymised – is a welcomed break. Oh aye it was – and I needed assistance to get up off the floor. I was in stitches. So it comes with …
Back to Battlestar Galactica 2004
If you are looking at a twenty-two-year-old science fiction television series, you will find the visual effects are undeniably dated. The pacing belongs to a different era of broadcasting. It features people in leather jackets flying spaceships. But I am asking you to look past the early-2000s aesthetic, because beneath the surface of Battlestar Galactica …
The Survival Equation for the Human Race
Bridges are built with a factor of safety. Reactors have containment margins. Aircraft carry load limits written into law before anything flies. The most consequential technology of this century has no such margin at all. It has arguments: open letters, summit panels, and the word ‘hoax’ typed in capitals. It has nothing you can calculate. …
