Kimi Code finished neither of two small coding tasks and burned its whole quota in minutes

Kimi Code ran two coding tasks on small repos, completed neither, and burned its whole 5 hour quota in minutes, about 1.37 dollars of API-rate usage across 1.59M tokens in the logs.

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How it works

Kimi Code takes two coding tasks on small repos
Completes neither
Burns its whole 5-hour quota in minutes, about 1.37 dollars of API-rate usage across 1.59 million tokens

Why it’s worth knowing

The quota died faster than the tasks could even start properly.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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