“State of [T]he Art” versus “State of [t]he Art”.

edit: Why is this a pedantic question? Do people think I’m mocking the poster of the link? I genuinely want to understand why they capitalized the “T” but not the “O”. How else do I ask this question without sounding pedantic? I’m ESL.

I am really eager to give Kimi K3 a try, but I’ll reserve my judgement until I’ve worked with it for at least a few days.

(yes, I know this article is about an oracle router)

I’d be amenable to it but I’m already aware of them lying about token throughout by 50-100% on AA and on Twitter, even when you get a dedicated server.

Just too much lying piled up to extend courtesy here, even though you’re my favorite open model provider. Please, get your house in order, and if the house is so big that marketing drove this set, ask them to slow down a bit and market things that people can actually use / you actually provide.

I use DeepSeek exclusively and now Kimi K3 offers a great planning assistant for more advanced coding tasks.

DeepSeek v4 Flash is extremely fast and is able to handle pretty much anything I've thrown at it (I use mostly Rust, PSQL, Angular and Terraform).

I self host Bifrost as my LLM gateway, though I wish LLM vendors would do monthly/daily automatic billing (like VPS providers do) rather than prepaid + auto-top up.

It's annoying maintaining a non-refundable minimum balance across vendors, I would rather be billed for my exact usage.

OpenRouter helps, but I don't really like it as a service and not a fan of the mark up.

They put a router model in front that predicts whether Kimi or Fable is going to give a better cost for a correct result. (They believe that ultimately such a router model should be continuously trained on your own workloads so it makes the best decisions for you).

Their router chose Kimi the majority of the time (72% in one category, all the way to 96% in another category), leading to cost savings in every category (from 1.5x to 50x depending).