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Setting Up Pi With DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on OpenRouter
When I run out of Codex and Claude Code usage, I switch to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in pi through OpenRouter. In Inference Is the…
Read postInference Is the Last LLM Moat
OpenAI and Anthropic's moat for developers is subsidized inference, meaning reliable, fast, Western-hosted access to running models at an affordable monthly price. If that…
Read postMy First Week With GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra was my main Codex driver for the last week, and I am back on GPT-5.5. That sounds harsher than my actual opinion…
Read postHetzner’s Cheap Cloud Tier Is Unavailable After Two Price Increases
Hetzner used to be the obvious cheap cloud option in my mind. On September 7, 2026, I checked its public catalog and found every…
Read postSwitching from GPT-5.5 to GPT-5.6 Made Me Less Productive
I pay for three Codex subscriptions at $200 each, and for the past week they have mostly bought me waiting. Since I switched from…
Read postAI Is Now a Commodity
Give me a few hundred million dollars and a year and a half, and I will build you a pretty good LLM. Not a…
Read postTIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, With Ads Built In
TIME is now serving two different versions of its website. Humans get the magazine. AI crawlers get a stripped down markdown copy with ads…
Read postGPT-5.6 Sol Uses Twice the Tokens of GPT-5.5
GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh now uses more than twice as many tokens per session as GPT-5.5 xhigh in my Codex workflow. For Codex users, tokens…
Read postCodex CLI Has Responsive Tables in the Terminal
LLMs use Markdown tables all the time. A few months ago, Codex CLI displayed them as ordinary wrapped text. In a narrow terminal, the…
Read postGoogle Lighthouse Adds Agentic Browsing Checks and Cloudflare Adds AI Traffic Controls
Google Lighthouse and Cloudflare are adding different controls for the same emerging class of automated web visitors. Lighthouse added an experimental Agentic Browsing category.…
Read postGemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite Ignore Temperature, Top-P, and Top-K
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ignore temperature, top_p, and top_k, according to Google's current migration guide. Existing Gemini requests could send…
Read postI Tried to Make AI Writing Sound Human by Banning AI Words Through logit_bias
I tried to make AI writing sound more human with logit_bias, an API setting that changes how likely a model is to select specific…
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