It Made Itself the Curriculum

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Remember when you could just… ask it something? Now, to get an answer, you pick a provider, wire up a connection, pull a model list, decide the list is lying to you, type the model's name in by hand, set a context window, and tick off what the model can and can't do. All of that before it says a single word. It's a study app. You came here to study.

And it never stops growing. Every update adds another settings page, another toggle, another dashboard — and not one update has ever taken something away. Providers, gateways, relays, quotas… none of it makes the thing easier to use. It just makes it look busy. Somewhere in the pile, "does more" quietly turned into "does more to you."

Honestly, it feels deliberate — like the product would rather you didn't bother. Your best guess is now part of the workflow, and that's not a feature, it's a toll booth. When getting it set up takes longer than learning from it, it isn't a learning tool anymore. It's the curriculum. And it's a bad one.