K3 or Bust

Moonshot announced Kimi K3 (Obligatory Seagull) and I can't help but feel generally underwhelmed of late by open and closed source model releases. There just isn't particularly much worth discussing these days outside of the cost matrix.

Kimi represents another step along that grinding exponential, but it just gets harder and harder to qualify models for daily work unless they get cheaper per quality token output. Until I can see Opus 4.6 quality at Deepseek v4 Flash speeds and prices it's just not really worth concerning myself with the circus.

Don't get me wrong, I am more amped than ever about large language models, I just see very little in the way of meaningful work being done in the architecture itself. There's so much room left in harness technology and orchestration strategies left incomplete I find discussing TPUs and Novel Decoding strategies at scale to be mostly marketing noise.

"Adding More Compute will compensate" doesn't mean anything when I can't afford to use the current generation of models and all of the older models have been deprecated and delisted.