Tested Kimi K3 for Coding

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codemog•about 13 hours ago

Should have given the other frontier models a chance too? What if Fable or GPT-5.6 would have found a 30% speed up? Not like a sample size of one means much though.

enraged_camel•about 13 hours ago

Yeah, I'm not sure what the purpose of this article is. I don't have a lot of experience with Rust, but I think this is the type of task even Opus 4.5 could do.

garciasn•about 14 hours ago

Saving you a click:

> I decided to try it out and see if it could optimize my Rust program.

> Kimi K3 had 2 recommendations, and I decided to have it pursue the SWAR optimization—SIMD Within a Register. With SWAR, a single 64-bit value is treated as 8 eight-bit values—so we can handle 8 u8 values (single-byte) at once.

> Kimi K3 took about 15 minutes for the task, and it completed it perfectly. I found the optimization sped up the program by 2%.

> It cost about $1 for the tokens on OpenRouter.

cromka•about 13 hours ago

Question is whether other models would offer same optimization or was it exclusive to K3? Would have been much more interesting write-up.

akmarinov•about 14 hours ago

Yeah that was a short article

arikrahman•about 12 hours ago

$1 seem a lot, with a high cache hit rate it should be lower.

kxxx•about 11 hours ago

Author couldn't be bothered to compare any other models? ok man

ur-whale•about 13 hours ago

> Tested Kimi K3 for Coding

TLDR: Kimi K3 is good, but the data point is minuscule.

jeffnv•about 12 hours ago

TL? it's like 200 words long

Tested Kimi K3 for Coding

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