Developer Switches to Kimi K3 API After Claude Blocks Routine Tasks
Pieter Levels says he moved an OpenCode workflow to Kimi after Claude repeatedly blocked or downgraded tasks he considered harmless, including a retro Windows XP browser project.
Entities: Kimi K3, OpenCode, Claude Code, Tim Sweeney
On X, Pieter Levels said he moved his OpenCode workflow to Kimi K3 after OpenRouter returned a rate-limit error and Claude Code kept blocking or downgrading tasks he described as routine. He wrote that a direct Kimi account and API key setup got him back to work on a browser-based Windows XP project, after Claude had interrupted that project and, he said, responded strongly to a health-related question he asked the model.
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Developer Switches to Kimi K3 API After Claude Blocks Routine Tasks
Pieter Levels says he moved an OpenCode workflow to Kimi after Claude repeatedly blocked or downgraded tasks he considered harmless, including a retro Windows XP browser project.
Entities: Kimi K3, OpenCode, Claude Code, Tim Sweeney
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Thanks everyone got OpenCode working with Kimi K3 First I tried OpenRouter but immediately it said "rate limited upstream" So that upstream being Kimi's servers, so I signed up to Kimi, paid $19, got an API key and off we go! Unlike Claude Code it doesn't block me every 5 minutes now for just making Windows XP work in the browser (zomg cybersecurity!!!!11), ridiculous being belittled by your AI model all day Yesterday I asked about monocytes vs lymphocytes ratio in my blood cause I saw someone post it here and Claude started a whole tirade how it's worried about me because I ask him about my health, the actual fuck?
How do I run K3 on Claude Code? Fable blocks me from most of my work and now Opus too! My work: I'm just trying to install Yahoo! Messenger from 2003 in Windows XP on http://pieter.com https://twitter.com/nrehiew_/status/2077782070785634767
Kimi K3 is absolutely hammering through my Windows XP Simulator to do list Claude Code couldn't do this for 2 weeks or kept getting stuck because I would get downgraded to Opus for safety then to Sonnet again for safety, useless 2 weeks of time wasted due to safety guardrails that are dumb just to protect me from making a fun hobby project Thank you China!!!!
Thanks everyone got OpenCode working with Kimi K3 First I tried OpenRouter but immediately it said "rate limited upstream" So that upstream being Kimi's servers, so I signed up to Kimi, paid $19, got an API key and off we go! Unlike Claude Code it doesn't block me every 5 minutes now for just making Windows XP work in the browser (zomg cybersecurity!!!!11), ridiculous being belittled by your AI model all day Yesterday I asked about monocytes vs lymphocytes ratio in my blood cause I saw someone post it here and Claude started a whole tirade how it's worried about me because I ask him about my health, the actual fuck?
Yes Claude this could be us but u keep blocking me
How to code with Kimi K3 (better than Fable and no restrictions) today: - Ask Codex or Claude Code to install OpenCode (yes it will 馃槀!) - Go to http://kimi.com, make an account, pay for membership $19/mo, get an API key at http://kimi.com/code/console - Run OpenCode, do /connect and connect to Kimi Code, paste API key - I recommend set to BUILD mode with Shift+Tab, u can set bypass permissions (like I do in Claude Code always) in /settings
Thanks everyone got OpenCode working with Kimi K3 First I tried OpenRouter but immediately it said "rate limited upstream" So that upstream being Kimi's servers, so I signed up to Kimi, paid $19, got an API key and off we go! Unlike Claude Code it doesn't block me every 5 minutes now for just making Windows XP work in the browser (zomg cybersecurity!!!!11), ridiculous being belittled by your AI model all day Yesterday I asked about monocytes vs lymphocytes ratio in my blood cause I saw someone post it here and Claude started a whole tirade how it's worried about me because I ask him about my health, the actual fuck?
Every day Claude starts to feel more like that angry math teacher you had: preachy, pedantic and condescending Which is a wild experience if you're paying $200/mo+ for a service to get preached by No thanks I'll go with the Chinese models then!
Thanks everyone got OpenCode working with Kimi K3 First I tried OpenRouter but immediately it said "rate limited upstream" So that upstream being Kimi's servers, so I signed up to Kimi, paid $19, got an API key and off we go! Unlike Claude Code it doesn't block me every 5 minutes now for just making Windows XP work in the browser (zomg cybersecurity!!!!11), ridiculous being belittled by your AI model all day Yesterday I asked about monocytes vs lymphocytes ratio in my blood cause I saw someone post it here and Claude started a whole tirade how it's worried about me because I ask him about my health, the actual fuck?
Kimi K3 is absolutely hammering through my Windows XP Simulator to do list Claude Code couldn't do this for 2 weeks or kept getting stuck because I would get downgraded to Opus for safety then to Sonnet again for safety, useless 2 weeks of time wasted due to safety guardrails that are dumb just to protect me from making a fun hobby project Thank you China!!!!
Thanks everyone got OpenCode working with Kimi K3 First I tried OpenRouter but immediately it said "rate limited upstream" So that upstream being Kimi's servers, so I signed up to Kimi, paid $19, got an API key and off we go! Unlike Claude Code it doesn't block me every 5 minutes now for just making Windows XP work in the browser (zomg cybersecurity!!!!11), ridiculous being belittled by your AI model all day Yesterday I asked about monocytes vs lymphocytes ratio in my blood cause I saw someone post it here and Claude started a whole tirade how it's worried about me because I ask him about my health, the actual fuck?