u/TinyAres

Kimi is smart and was one of the best free chats out there at the start BUT it keeps reusing old unrelated context which makes all convos suck now, maybe if you used kimi as your ai boyfriend it would be welcome, or love conversations where everything is pointless and it always devolves into what happened before. Your only redemption would be if you brought up a topic that doesn't remind Kimi of anything, but not for long.

It turning to insta on its own and being unable to answer due to presumably context after like 10 messages is not that great either.

Kimi is good, this is 100% on how the platform is setup.

Don't get banned because of me but just wondering how hard can you go. I saw guy claim 400 mil use, and assuming you can do that every day that is 12 bil, so not too bad, certainly beats credits and request based pricing with perhaps the exception of the minimax one. The only other actually called "unlimited" I know is super slow and capped at 800mil give or take.

In the past it was the way to go, mainly cause AI sucked and the tooling was in its infancy, but now you can flow forever, and you are incentivized to cause many things are remembered and the context is kept and cached, and you don't have to keep teaching an amnesiac about your project and direction constantly. The todo list is not written down but it's in memory, in fact annoyingly so in the rare cases the session is lost, and seriously limits longer planning, even if it makes like 30 todos, it will only do like 5 then might forget about the rest. Now this might seem unrelated but just highlighting the shift toward keep things in memory, and it might be optimistic too, cause it did a thing, then said it fixed, then you told that is no, but it remembers that it fixed it, and when the context is compressed they still remember it. Let's say context is compressed to 40k, wow that is so nice, but does that context matter at all? It might not just be extra load but wrong too.

It works best in small projects, but even then I was completely stuck in the mud just now, and not even sure why, the context was 30k, and the model kimi k2.6 is smart, it was absolutely perfectly set up for success, but no hope, and it could absolutely do it cause it did right after i started fresh. I had this yesterday too, I wanted to fix a toggle!!!, could not be fixed, not without starting new context, as of what was wrong for AI I have no idea, I could literally spell it out what to exactly do and where, zero chance, and no useful feedback either.

The AIs got smarter, the eco got more convenient, but fundamentally the game didn't change, so yea they can do a million context now, and you can have all the toys, but almost all the toys just make your guy dumber and distracted. I think it's easier to get lazier now, but doesn't mean it's good. AI also loves to overengineer, so while I would easily say that AI is better coder, and let even say better engineer, but more in a technical sense, they are acting more like a techie paid by the hour trying to ensure their job security than someone looking to get from A to B.

Either it gives up or worse keeps burning quota.

The simplest is that you have have a smart planner and the same doer which is the same model, this is the best way to preserve cache and avoid misunderstandings.

That said the secondary approach is a smart planner THAT does the todos, with a capable builder is very similar quality wise. I must emphasize that you must do the todos with the planner, cause if you hand off the plan to the doer that leads to shorter and lower quality plans, that would be like the engineer after careful consideration leaves the construction worker to make the blueprint.

The big draw of the seperate planner builder is slightly speed but mostly savings, so you might spend like 2-3 requests planning then the doer spends half an hour doing. Then you do the review with the planner. I also noticed that for bigger projects deepseek 4 pro / mimo 2.5 pro level high context planners are more effective. These models are still bit of a rarity, cause you need intelligence, context, and agenticness to make good todos, so claude opus 4.7 max and gpt 5.4-5.5 xhigh would be the main alternatives, which I wouldn't advise. For smaller context glm 5.1 and kimi k2.6 works just as well, and the latter is the most capable vision model in the open source camp, while former is apparently best designer. Design is definitely bit of an awkward area, there the builder / planner combo mostly falls apart, but also smart doesn't neceserarily means good at design, like even gpt 5.5 the smartest guy is 10th on design arena.

https://www.designarena.ai/leaderboard

For builder I have most experience using minimax 2.7 via their plan which also does servicable design, as an alternative deepseek 4 flash via the opencode go plan would be my choice. Also this shows that for best results you probably want a few models you switch between, that are most likely not from the same provider, cause models from the same provider tend to have the same weaknesses.

Try to be as specific as possible using weekly or monthly values with model used.

Best used for what you work on the side, or if you work on 20 things at the same time.

https://cloud.canopywave.io/?ref=XMZ7F6Y3AB