jmclark-lab bets the entire fork on one obscure AI engine

Where the original Mike can route work to several AI vendors and switch between them, jmclark-lab has stripped that out entirely. Every chat, summary, and answer now goes to "Fugu," a model family from the AI lab Sakana - with no fallback, no toggle, and no way back to the other engines. The app won't even start unless the Fugu credentials are set, and the team documents the running cost at roughly $5 per million words in and $30 per million out.

There's a genuinely useful side effect: every AI-generated message is now stamped with a record of exactly which model produced it - a clean audit trail of what said what. Worth noting the team's own caveats: the Fugu connection is unproven against a live service, so its tool-driven features may quietly fail, and it's unclear the provider's endpoint is even live yet.