Comment by sieve
8 hours ago
Kimi is really good.
I have been using Sonnet and others (DeepSeek, ChatGPT, MiniMax, Qwen) for my compiler/vm project and the Claude Pro plan is mostly unusable for any serious coding effort. So I use it in chat mode in the browser where it cannot needlessly read your entire project, and use Kimi on the OpenCode Go plan with pi.
Kimi consistently exceeded Sonnet on the C+Python project. Never had to worry about it doing anything other than what I asked it to do. GLM crapped the bed once or twice. Kimi never did.
>the Claude Pro plan is mostly unusable for any serious coding effort
Why? Seems to go a giant the opinion of the masses who mostly use Claude Pro for serious coding.
Anecdotal evidence but last week or two Claude changed something related to their quotas. I'm a Pro user(now Team Standard) and while I did quite a lot before with that subscription, past week the 5h quota quite literally lasts maybe 5 semi sized prompts. I don't "vibe" anything, I give it clearly defined tasks or things to debug/fix, nothing hardcore. I ran out of the quota every single day past week, often twice a day, this never happened before. It's rather unusable for actual professional usage now. I'm tempted to test Codex over next week to compare hence why we're waiting with going to Claude Max sub.
I think ths comment is referring to the usage limits of the Pro plan. You run out of usage very fast if on anything less than a Max ($100+/month) plan.