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TL;DR Inexpensive, fast, promising but hit some walls; needs a lot of babysitting¶

Running it:

aider --model openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k2

What's good about Kimi K2¶

Once I got into a groove with it, it did some things well:

• Made frontend changes very quickly and cheaply
• Did a decent job …

TL;DR Cheap, sometimes slow, unreliable as editor; sometimes wrote good code with bad characters¶

Using it:

aider  --model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528

I didn't use Deepseek very long - just part of a day on two occasions- and didn't keep very detailed notes. It was kind of slow and made too …

TL;DR It works. It's cheap. It's VERY slow.¶

Via OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-coder. Start it like this:

aider --model openrouter/qwen/qwen3-coder`

It's SO cheap¶

I only used it for part of a day, but I literally spent a total of $0.10 on Q3C to do …