Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Kimi is quietly becoming one of the most interesting dev assistants out there. After K2, K2-thinking, Ok Computer, and their agentic system we covered recently, they just dropped something developers will love: their own CLI agent.
You get a shell mode to run commands directly, seamless switching back to agent mode, GitHub actions, MCP support, and the same long-context muscle Kimi is known for. Their 256K context and the new Kimi Linear architecture make attention way more efficient on huge repos, cutting memory by up to ~75% and boosting decoding throughput up to ~6x on million-token contexts. Perfect if you live inside large codebases.
There are two caveats: it’s personal-dev only (no enterprise use yet) and limited to macOS/Linux for now. But honestly, if you’re experimenting, learning, or just curious, this is a strong alternative to Claude Code or Gemini CLI.
And right now they even have a Black Friday deal where you negotiate with their AI guard to get membership as low as $0.99. Unlimited debugging, generation, full-stack builds at that price is wild. If you try it, let me know how it stacks up for you.
I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO & co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀
#Kimi #AItools #LLMengineering #developers #codinglife #aicode #AInews #machinelearning #longcontext #KimiLinear #opensourceAI #commandline #CLItools #short
Kimi is quietly becoming one of the most interesting dev assistants out there. After K2, K2-thinking, Ok Computer, and their agentic system we covered recently, they just dropped something developers will love: their own CLI agent.
You get a shell mode to run commands directly, seamless switching back to agent mode, GitHub actions, MCP support, and the same long-context muscle Kimi is known for. Their 256K context and the new Kimi Linear architecture make attention way more efficient on huge repos, cutting memory by up to ~75% and boosting decoding throughput up to ~6x on million-token contexts. Perfect if you live inside large codebases.
There are two caveats: it’s personal-dev only (no enterprise use yet) and limited to macOS/Linux for now. But honestly, if you’re experimenting, learning, or just curious, this is a strong alternative to Claude Code or Gemini CLI.
And right now they even have a Black Friday deal where you negotiate with their AI guard to get membership as low as $0.99. Unlimited debugging, generation, full-stack builds at that price is wild. If you try it, let me know how it stacks up for you.
I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO & co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀
#Kimi #AItools #LLMengineering #developers #codinglife #aicode #AInews #machinelearning #longcontext #KimiLinear #opensourceAI #commandline #CLItools #short
