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Re: Kimi Work

#71
post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Narrative? Kind of like the sphere Earth narrative.

Pedantic. > A narrative is a structured account of connected events, experiences, or ideas, commonly referred to as a story Regardless of intent, it is how you tell your story.

I don't think the comment was intended to be pedantic, but rather to reframe the message as scientific fact.

Re: Kimi Work

#72
post #67

It's a mistake to make this such an obvious copy. It will feed the narrative that Chinese entities cannot be trusted by the West. They could have varied it even slightly. It's one thing with hardware because customers don't need to trust suppliers any further than they can throw the box. But these labs seem to be battling for enterprise knowledge work-share. Trust is paramount, and they're already behind on that fron…

Copying is not frowned upon in the LLM ecosystem. This is its very reason of existence.

Re: Kimi Work

#73
post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Narrative? Kind of like the sphere Earth narrative.

Pedantic. > A narrative is a structured account of connected events, experiences, or ideas, commonly referred to as a story Regardless of intent, it is how you tell your story.

I think you misunderstood. “Narrative” typically frames something as polemic or open to interpretation, which this is about equally so to the whole “spherical Earth” story.

Re: Kimi Work

#74
post #67

It's a mistake to make this such an obvious copy. It will feed the narrative that Chinese entities cannot be trusted by the West. They could have varied it even slightly. It's one thing with hardware because customers don't need to trust suppliers any further than they can throw the box. But these labs seem to be battling for enterprise knowledge work-share. Trust is paramount, and they're already behind on that fron…

Copying is not frowned upon in the LLM ecosystem. This is its very reason of existence.

Perhaps, but "we run the exact same business as Anthropic and OpenAI to the pixel at 0.1% the price" is going to raise eyebrows.

Re: Kimi Work

#75
I wish they'd embed the Code UI as a tab, similar to Claude Code Desktop.

There's really no real reason for those tools to be separate and for them not to give me something a bit nicer than just a TUI in the terminal.

They already have a locally runnable web UI when you have Kimi (the CLI) installed: https://www.kimi.com/help/kimi-code/cli-getting-started

  kimi server run --foreground
Though it's ever so slightly broken (the sub-agent tracking stop button does nothing, some toggles in the Settings are not toggleable and so on, really slows down with long conversations to the point where keyboard input lags by seconds, think 600+ turns).

Personally, I still liked ZCode better and will probably write a blog post about my experience with K3 too, the harness might need some more work, but the model is really, really good.

Re: Kimi Work

#77
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Copying is not frowned upon in the LLM ecosystem. This is its very reason of existence.

Perhaps, but "we run the exact same business as Anthropic and OpenAI to the pixel at 0.1% the price" is going to raise eyebrows.

Why?

Re: Kimi Work

#78
post #67

It's a mistake to make this such an obvious copy. It will feed the narrative that Chinese entities cannot be trusted by the West. They could have varied it even slightly. It's one thing with hardware because customers don't need to trust suppliers any further than they can throw the box. But these labs seem to be battling for enterprise knowledge work-share. Trust is paramount, and they're already behind on that fron…

Copying is not frowned upon in the LLM ecosystem. This is its very reason of existence.

How to make an apple pie from scratch with no copying:

Step 1: invent the universe

Re: Kimi Work

#79
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Copying is not frowned upon in the LLM ecosystem. This is its very reason of existence.

Perhaps, but "we run the exact same business as Anthropic and OpenAI to the pixel at 0.1% the price" is going to raise eyebrows.

Once the OpenAI/Anthropic-driven hype dies down people with decision-making power will be taking a look at the numbers and look at real productivity metrics. And they'll see it makes little sense to pay so much when competition is around and similarly good.

Re: Kimi Work

#80
> Kimi Work is a Local Agent designed for deep workflows. It mounts your local folders, navigates the web autonomously via WebBridge, runs Python code in the background, and executes scheduled tasks.

It's clearly a dupe of Claude/Codex products (Codex especially, styling-wise), but I think Kimi's goal here is simply to appear on feature-parity with bigger labs. I doubt they'd want to invest much into designing a UI for "the future of agentic work" from the ground up.

Their bread and butter and claim-to-fame will continue to be low-cost, near-frontier models, for which they need to at least appear to have some app layer to plug into.

And, in some ways, duping is a great way to show people that even the app layer can be commoditized.

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