Observations on the world and its inhabitants
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 ...
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 ...
Do you need to know exactly how the electronics in your car works – or how the transmission works – before you drive your car? Hover your mouse over these these 3 dots just in case. That’s the point. It is about how I did that 3 dots thing. I don’t know – I did ...
Written by ChatGPT (assisted by a human who knew when to stop) at the end of a reflection on ‘The Problem’. Except that the poor AI who was actually DeepSeek misidentified itself as ChatGPT!! Hilarious – isn’t it. This happened at the end of DeepSeek reflecting on what happened (as posted) from ‘Introduction’ to the ...
Introduction This document is a complete, honest account of a technical project to connect the Claude Desktop application to a self-hosted WordPress site using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It records what was attempted, what failed, what was discovered, and what finally worked. It is written for anyone — technical or otherwise — who wants ...
