Dean W. Ball

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• Jul 17, 2026

  Some observations on Kimi:
  
  1. It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that. In agentic coding sessions, it seems pretty much on par with the best public models of Q1 2026. In my fairly limited use, it also…

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