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Claude's Bait-and-Switch: Weekly Limits on Pro and Max

2025-07-29

Anthropic's Claude Pro and Max AI coding assistants now have weekly usage limits, upsetting paying users. This highlights the industry's problematic trend of initially offering "unlimited" access before imposing restrictions on power users. The author argues this breaches developer trust and advocates for transparent pricing. In contrast, Kilo Code offers pay-per-use with upfront pricing and a 300% bonus credit promotion this week as an alternative.

(blog.kilocode.ai)

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Kilo Code: A 'Don't Innovate' Approach to Building the Ultimate AI Coding Assistant

2025-04-12

Instead of innovating, Kilo Code embraces a 'fast-follow' strategy, integrating the best features from existing open-source AI coding assistants like Roo Code and Cline. By forking and merging these projects, Kilo Code quickly became a superset of both, offering a comprehensive toolset. The goal isn't to win a market war, but to build a genuinely useful tool boosting developer productivity. The open-source nature encourages community contribution and allows for rapid iteration, aiming to surpass proprietary solutions through speed and collaboration.

(blog.kilocode.ai)

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Quasar Alpha: OpenAI's Secret Weapon?

2025-04-10

A mysterious AI model called Quasar Alpha has emerged on the OpenRouter platform, quickly rising to become the number one AI model for programming. Strong evidence suggests a connection to OpenAI, possibly even being OpenAI's o4-mini-low model under a different name. While not state-of-the-art, its speed and cost-effectiveness could disrupt the AI coding model market. Quasar Alpha is now available on Kilo Code.

(blog.kilocode.ai)

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Kilo Code: Building an AI Code Generator with a Blazing-Fast Community

2025-03-26

In just two weeks, the Kilo Code team assembled a team of ten and built an AI code generation tool based on open-source projects like Roo Code and Cline. They embrace rapid iteration and actively seek user feedback, offering a free tier and rewards. Kilo Code aims to create the most user-friendly AI coding agent, covering a range of functionalities from small projects to advanced use cases, including instant app generation, automated doc updates, and team collaboration.

(blog.kilocode.ai)

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