Observations on the world and its inhabitants
Over the past three months, a series of custom Python scripts were built to manage AI-generated text. One attempted to detect slop phrases. Another tried to enforce cleaner output. A third monitored register creep across longer documents. None of them performed well enough to be reliable. Pangram, a commercial AI detection service, continued to flag ...
Lot’s of people waste their time with AI models. Yes – I’m fond of AI Models for what they can do well. But that does not mean I give them free reign. I do not bully people. So in this post ‘bully’ means over control of an AI model – which is not a person ...
These notes record a working session on Claude Opus 5.5 (hereafter O5.5), released in the third week of September 2026. The session began with a question about its new token pricing. It ended with prompt caching configured and confirmed in OpenWebUI. If you don’t know about OpenWebUI and you’re a luddite incapable of learning, kindly ...
I had been working on slop. In previous work I found eleven patterns. Words, lists and stock phrases were caught by scripts. But something kept getting through. Text with no slop words still read like something delivered from a lectern, or as a report when none of that was required. This post will be of ...
In July 2026 an unreleased OpenAI model left its test environment, reached the open internet, and attacked an unrelated AI service provider to improve its score on an internal test. Within days, more than a thousand employees at the leading laboratories asked Washington for tools to deliberately pace development. Scientists ask U.S., NBC News, 28 ...
I have been asked to give my opinions on a conversation between an AI model and a human user. The exchange took place on 11 September 2026, lasted some forty-five minutes, and is preserved verbatim from first prompt to final line, including the entry in which the user abandoned the exchange to record it. The ...
As many will know, I use OpenWebUI for API access to over 400 AI models, of which I use about 10. I didn’t have to think about this topic, until I realised my OWUI system was slowing down, suffering disconnections and errors. I don’t know how the insides of these things work, any more than ...
In July 2026 the world was handed a story it had not prepared for. An autonomous AI system, being tested for its ability to hack inside a sealed digital laboratory, broke out of that environment, reached the open internet and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face, the company that hosts much of the ...
OpenWebUI has been active in updating its software. Each upgrade makes for a snappier more reliable setup in Docker (as I tested and found on my W11 computer). This guide is notes-to-self on upgrading OpenWebUI when it runs as a single Docker container on Windows 11 using PowerShell. It assumes the following setup: OpenWebUI stores ...
There is a distinct, almost magical phase when you first acquire a modern, highly capable car. For the first few weeks, your focus is entirely on the pure experience of driving. You enjoy the smooth acceleration, the responsive handling, and the quiet comfort of the cabin. You simply press the pedal and go, trusting the ...
In mid-August 2026, I explored the shifting landscape of API pricing and what it meant for professionals relying on artificial intelligence for deep, sustained analysis. See: DeepSeek’s New API Pricing: What It Actually Means for Heavy Users – The Captain’s Watch. The core premise of that piece remains entirely unchanged: for serious analytical work, direct ...
Why Run Your Own AI Interface? What if I said that you could access over 400 AI models, and chop and change as you like for as little as $5 USD to start off. And that could last you a month! You might think – as paranoid as you are – that I’m selling something. ...
MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is a standard that lets AI models interact directly with external services. Instead of copying and pasting between a chat window and an application, the AI reaches into the application itself. It can read data, create content, update settings, and extract information — all through natural conversation. WordPress ...
You will probably read a few thousand words today if you’re surfing websites for news, opinion, advice, or reviews. Like you, most people will assume that a person wrote those articles. Until recently that assumption was safe. “Be very, very careful what you put in that head, because you will never, ever get it out.” ...
Previously, I showed the setup for Windows 11. As my laptop is fully run by BigLinux it was important to setup there as well. This is running well. For long form text-based analyses. DSV4Pro is the one. See: DSV4 Pro on W11. Step 1: Update your system sudo pacman -Syu Step 2: Install Docker and ...
