I've been using Kimi K2.6 lately (don't have 2.7 available through blessed work channels yet) for tasks where I already know what it is I want to do and I want to just step through the process in pieces, and it's fine. Do I have to correct it maybe a bit more than Opus? Yeah, but the real cutoff would be between "I have to read every line" and "I can just trust it without reading every line" and for me neither model hits that mark, and I expect it to be a while yet for that. Is it as good as Opus if I want to spit ball about architecture and then convert that to code? No, but I don't have that problem all the time, and it's there if I do need it.

And now in a heavy coding week rather than bumping up against my spend limit by late Wednesday or Thursday I'm comfortably below it all week.

That said if anything I feel like I have to reign in K2.6 much more than Opus, actually. If I want to just ask it a question without it inferring some coding task to immediately start doing, it takes a lot more care to prevent it from just running off half-cocked off of an only 3/4s-cocked idea of my own. I use "plan" mode with both but it's somewhat more defensive with K2.6 than Opus.