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1. A strange thing is happening in AI There is something slightly strange happening in artificial intelligence. Companies are spending enormous amounts of money buying GPUs, building data centres, collecting…
I was in the Kruger Park recently, where everyone talks about the Big Five: lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo. They are the five animals everyone wants to see, and…
1. Two million users A product review lands on your desk. It shows 2 million users, and the team presenting is proud. Rightly so. Two million is a large number…
1. What I saw in Kruger I was walking through Kruger National Park recently when I noticed small pieces of metal sticking out of the ground, the remains of old…
1. Why this is worth being precise about Claude Code’s model can be changed through an environment variable, and that variable can point at a gateway such as OpenRouter rather…
1. Two arguments that sound contradictory and are not Most organisations end up holding two opposite opinions about centralisation at the same time, often within a few weeks of each…
CloudScale AI SEO summary What this is: a practical build guide for running an OpenCode agent behind Ghostty, routed through OpenRouter, as an alternative to a single model coding agent…
Vulnerability scanning used to mean choosing between a handful of expensive commercial scanners or writing your own scripts for every check you cared about. Nuclei changed that calculation. It is…
Anyone who has travelled with a laptop knows the ritual. You arrive somewhere new, you pull out your charger, and you discover that the wall has entirely different opinions about…
This is the second of two articles. Part one, Passkeys in Banking: What They Actually Fix, and What They Quietly Don’t, sets out the benefits and the risks. This part…
