@adlrocha - What Changed in Kimi K3 to make it so good?

Back to our regular schedule, welcome back to a new season of “Beyond the Code”. These past few weeks that I haven’t been around, we’ve seen a good number of new open model releases. Open models have been my daily driver for months. That has meant accepting a gap in the capabilities I had compared to proprietary models: for most of what I do they’re fine, and for the harder things that were frustrating me to the point of throwing the towel, I kept a cheap Claude subscription that I could fallback to (I want to think that this has helped improve my model taste). But a few weeks ago everything changed, Kimi K3 is the first release where I stopped using Claude all along. I saw myself using exclusively a single open model for my day-to-day (the closer I had been to this was GLM5.2, which was already covering almost all of my needs without having to fallback to a proprietary model, but there were still things were Opus came quite handy).This is a bigger deal to me than any benchmark. I’ve…