While most people would not be able to run Kimi K2.6 fast enough for a chat, as a coding assistant the low speed matters much less, especially when many tasks c

While most people would not be able to run Kimi K2.6 fast enough for a chat, as a coding assistant the low speed matters much less, especially when many tasks can be batched to progress during a single pass over the weights. If you run it on your own hardware, you can run it 24/7 without worrying about token price or reaching the subscription limits and it is likely that you can do more work, even on much slower hardware. Customizing an open-source harness can also provide a much greater efficiency than something like Claude Code. For any serious application, you might be more limited by your ability to review the code, than by hardware speed.