Temporarily (maybe permanently) using it as my daily driver but it's wild how comparable it is to Opus 4.7/4.8 (what's been my go to for a bit now—wrote a quick post on what I found today [1]).
Plus I can actually see the thinking traces and I’m not getting downgraded/denied by anthropic constsntly…
Their 200 USD tier is pretty good and I might move to them because their annual discounts also make it even cheaper. I dislike the way how Opus/Fable write and Kimi has less of that slop writing problem, but also ends up feeling kinda slower (especially on Max reasoning), technical abilities are not 100% the same but close (better in some tasks, worse on others).
that's a weird way of describing a near frontier open weights un-crippled useful coding buddy
do you work for OpenAI or Anthropic per chance?
And yes, it's a legitimate threat to frontier models. Both K3 and the distillation approach.