Tip: Route Long-Context and Subtask Work to Cheap Open-Weight Coding Models
Kilo Code·medium signal
With MiniMax M3 (1M context, 59.0% SWE-Bench Pro), Kimi K2.6, and GLM-5.1 all now runnable via Ollama or low-cost APIs, builders can keep a frontier closed model for top-level reasoning while routing bulk subtasks — search summarization, boilerplate, long-context grunt work — to a cheaper open-weight model. Heterogeneous routing like this is increasingly viable now that open models clear 70-90% on agentic coding benchmarks with the right harness.