throwaway29313

What if someone actually wants to support chinese deliberate effort?

Not everyone on this website is an american citizen and american patriot, y'know.

What you get from supporting so-called american companies? Inflated RAM prices, US adm bribery and collision to partition the market (and destroy competition). What you get from chinese companies? Open models that I can actually run at home & no stupid guardrails with preaching about safety yada yada.

Not too be "that guy" (e.g. "you're using it wrong"), I just want to humbly ask — have you tried blacklisting "underperformers" in OpenRouter config?

Here on HN was a post few days ago titled like "so you want to use openrouter", there was a benchmark in capabilities between providers which showed some aggressively quantize and basically break models and tool calling.

I am in no way a professional power user, but I frequently suffered from "call fails" (e.g. unclosed tags, broken agent loop, broken thinking blocks), so I had to babysit agent on it's loop. After I blacklisted like 20 providers (I think most broken were Nebius and DigitalOcean) these issues completely went away. I had several agents work on my small tasks for 18+ hours with no issues.