I created an OpenRouter account yesterday and was trying out some different models than I usually use and I was getting a feel for them, even developing some strong opinions about a couple of them.

And then this morning I glanced at my OpenRouter console usage page and realized that all my calls had been to kimi k2. I had been using a dev build of Marshland and there was a typo in a UserDefaults key, so it had been using the hardcoded fallback, which was kimi, the entire time.

I had even thought that I had a sense for how fast different models were, but it was just the different providers that OpenRouter was routing my requests to.

There’s a lesson of some sort here, but I’m as dumb as I ever was