ali(@waterloo_intern):I spent 48 hours with the Kimi K3 modeling code. It took: - 650 mg of caffeine (mandatory) - 40 cans of LaCroix (optional... world record (?)) - 8 papers - 6 months off my lifespan Finally grokked the entire lineage of Kimi K3 and how we got here... every single step, since 2019 GPT-2

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ali@waterloo_intern

2026.07.27 15:25

I spent 48 hours with the Kimi K3 modeling code. It took: - 650 mg of caffeine (mandatory) - 40 cans of LaCroix (optional... world record (?)) - 8 papers - 6 months off my lifespan Finally grokked the entire lineage of Kimi K3 and how we got here... every single step, since 2019 GPT-2