I told a model to think less, and it started thinking. That's the whole bug. But how I got there is worth writing down, because anyone putting one endpoint in front of several model families will probably hit some version of it. The setup: I build a desktop app that can talk to a model three ways. A local model through Ollama, the user's own API key, or cloud credits that go through a small gateway I run (a Cloudflare Worker) in front of OpenRouter. In that last mode the app doesn't know w...