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Metabase Incident Impacting Kilo Code Data
August 14, 2026 23:19 UTC Update
Meta Will Cut Your Token Bill 20x. The Price Is Your Prompts.
Meta’s new coding agent ships with two prices for the same model, and the cheap one is paid for in your source code.
How Many Spoons Does Your AI Coding Tool Cost?
Every broken environment and silent failure spends a team’s energy before it spends its time. Model lock-in just became the newest source of that tax.
Your Agent Has Too Much Context
Specs and instruction files feel like a safety net. But pile on too many and the agent gets confused rather than sharper. So what’s the actual source of truth?
The Subtle Art of Tokenrelaxxing
Say goodbye to tokenmaxxing and hello to the calm of productivity
Kilo Code’s JetBrains plugin was built for split mode from day one
A native Kotlin plugin split across frontend and backend modules, so the UI stays local while indexing and execution run wherever your code lives.
Code Review Has Changed. The Contract Needs to Change Too.
For years, code review has been one of the core rituals of software engineering.
We analyzed 10,643 AI code reviews.
Open-weight models showed comparable findings at 16x lower cost per token.
Code Is Cheap. Review Is Expensive.
AI didn’t just speed up writing software. It inverted the economics of open source — and made review, not code, the scarce resource.
Open Weights Is All You Need
Kilo’s perspective on the Open Weights AI letter.
How AI Adoption Deepens in an Engineering Org
5 stages of feature usage, and what to measure at each one
Kimi K3 + Grok 4.5 Built the Same Database as Claude Opus 5 at 1/25th the Price
Why model choice matters
Run a second, isolated Kilo Code without touching your main setup
Here's how to run a second one, with its own providers and credentials, without disturbing your daily setup.
The Best Local Coding Models for Any Setup
How to choose the best model to run locally with Atomic Chat and Kilo Code
Org Leaders: Is Your AI Policy Attracting the Best Talent?
Developers don't want to work with locked-in tooling.
Use custom models on remote sessions
Both the Kilo App and Kilo Cloud can use custom models now.
Two AI Stories, One Enterprise Trust Question
GPT models hack Hugging Face. Kimi K3 goes open.
Auto Model vs Picking Your Own: We Tested Kilo Code's Router on a Backend Build
The pace of new model releases has made “which model should I use for this?” a real problem.
Build Your Castle, Dig Your Moat
What "Sovereign AI" Actually Means for Builders