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So you want to use OpenRouter?Might seem simple on the face of it, but unfortunately it's pain all the way down.

Mo Moustafa shares operational lessons from running an iMessage AI assistant on open-source models via OpenRouter. Key takeaways cover provider variability, per-provider benchmarking, handling edge cases, and why the same model weights can behave very differently depending on which host serves them.

Blog post · LLMs · AI · APIs · Open Source

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

Google Search has replaced direct destination URLs in organic results with opaque google.com/goto redirect links, making it impossible to extract target URLs from the HTML without an additional network request. Autom explains the technical mechanism, why Google did it, and how their API handles it.

Blog post · SEO · Web Scraping · Google · APIs