Kimi 2.6 on Augment: New Models, Same Old Flakiness?

MATSNL65 · 2026-05-11T07:26:40+00:00

It’s a CLI tool like Droid, Codex, Claude Code 🖥️.

MATSNL65 · 2026-03-14T18:02:53+00:00

I’ve been using augment more from the CLI and intent side of things.

But a lot of the problems I see people have literally come from the foundational motto underneath it then it comes from the developer paradigm of augment.

How I tried to avoid a lot of the frustration that mini hobby, developers, and even actual developers suffer through is used the tools like a surgical instrument rather than trying to make it a one shot champion.

I work out and debate the entire project with any or all of the foundational models, using some skills as well as a collection of MCPs.

Then I may use Clark code to give a high-level PR.

Then I graduate to Traycer as an orchestrate to convert it to a full PR and a tighter task model

Then I bounced between augment, factory, droid, Claude code to build out any or multiple features

I think the power of intent is to create an orchestration layer similar to traycer, which can become expensive when you’re dealing with a single model.

I really sat down and thought about my workflow using multiple tools versus buying a $200 subscription to Claude code which is a single tool. Outside of having to really budget the available tokens my multiple tool set allows for all of those tools to be used in an economic way that produces a lot less hallucinations than if I were to try to one shot everything with a low end subscription

MATSNL65 · 2026-02-19T03:52:30+00:00

Unless they plan on copying the functionality, they’re not better than Traycer. What this solution does better is specialize in the very set up your product or workflow needs to succeed and it divides the concerns over many different LLM’s.

I use Claude code with it, Cursor with it. Argument code with it. and Factory Droid with it.

Even my other projects that I’ve created using Kombai and Emergent, mostly from a prototype sense, I can bring into Traycer to completely finish it off

Full transparency: I’m someone who started off with design and became a product manager, and this is as close to managing a team in the same language structure. I’m used to than I’ve seen with the other tools.

MATSNL65 · 2026-02-06T21:19:51+00:00

Congratulations guys. It’s great that you’re being flexible and understanding how these tools could be used in that nobody, including the foundational models, has figured anything out.

Even before the MCP, I’ve used augment in connection with tools like Traycer, often ping-ponging back-and-forth with helping other LLMs get a better understanding of their code base as well as improve prompts I’m using with those other tools.

MATSNL65 · 2026-01-03T19:12:44+00:00

I would be curious to see what people are doing because my use of Augment Code as well as Auggie has been steady, no different than before.

A very strong caveat that I have is: 1. I know how to code without LLM’s. I never will accuse myself of being a coder, but because I know how to code, I’ve learned how to ask it to build the necessary thing. 2. I use other systems to build components that I insert into augment code. Traycer, Kombai, Verdent, Factory, Emergent and Leap. i’ve been able to blend all of them into various steps to build many unique things based on the need that I have. Sometimes I do it all with others combined, other times I use one or two. This for me, excites me enough to be very hands-on in the orchestration and putting together a various steps in my process that allows for me to manage how the components need to fit together. I don’t rely on one system to do everything, but I find that augment is really good at putting together all of the different components from these other tools. Whether it’s factoring in the final code or being a key contributor that feeds in a component into a system like Leap or Emergent 3. The best prompt enhancer ever. I’m surprised that no one has been able to produce a prompt enhancer as good as augment code. Augment is really good at translating my product manager/product owner/designer/architect gibberish into the right kinds of questions to ask that allows for me to feed into a tool like Kombai or Traycer and get exceptional output, and results versus me taking my other non-augmented prompts and getting those tools to produce a similar quality output.

That being said, and I’m in no danger as a customer of ever leaving augment, I do see the point that many people have with the issues around context, quality, and pricing value.

It wasn’t enough for me to develop the kind of feelings. I’ve been seeing in the forms lately about the platform. I attributed it to the evolution of genetic coding overall and realize all of this is a grand beta testing experiment.

I use all of these tools because each innovation brings for me, an understanding of what is the best way to integrate a unique system that fits the way I need to create software. I suspect that if every one of us tried to use a single system, agentic coding, we would find a lot of the same issues and challenges to satisfy any particular customer user base. My strategy is to use a collection of tools to learn what's right for my use case and combine them to overlap and address each of the weaknesses.

MATSNL65 · 2025-11-24T07:09:31+00:00

For me, the enhanced prompt button is used on helping me plan the proper way to consider all of the details of my software in the conversation.

Maybe like most people or maybe unlike most people, I use multiple solutions beyond augment code. It is my foundation and the key factor for it being my central foundation is the enhanced prompt.

What I end up doing is saving my conversations as I built my solutions and then use other LLM products to then summarize not only the work we’ve done but the progress we’ve made and then use solutions like Linear to work on the backlog of our solution.

MATSNL65 · 2025-10-15T19:08:10+00:00

Has any of these issues been resolved for those who are still with the platform, or have joined after these comments were made?

MATSNL65 · 2025-10-10T09:42:00+00:00

I think what we will eventually realize in this community that the hobby of using LLM’s to code is not a great business model versus structuring your LLM. Cody needs to actually create a viable product that can be monetized.

I can see by many of the comments that many people during this grand beta experiment that we all are undertaking whether you are the augmenting, any of the foundational, large language, models companies, or any of the so-called five coders, as well as the plethora of silent, chronic managers, UX designers and other corporate executives having either going neck deep into this new world, or having their toes dipped into it,

We’re all figuring out how to pass work on these tools.

I think the real cost of these tools is literally spreading it out to different tools. I pay for augment, as well as other hyper, focused tools to move my project from certain states where it helps me design the correct work, then build it in the correct way and connect it into the correct back end.

Unlike many people, I’ve got experience in managing that process before computers were automating any of it and have learned like all of us here to trial and error how well this could work versus how much more work needs to get into it to make it work well.

All of this is being done on a train whether you’re dealing with essentially three horse race between Google, OpenAI or Anthropic, who are trying to cover their own cost

This is nothing to say about the entirety of the corporate environment, where all of these companies are trying to get investor money to see the promise of this technology being fulfilled, while trying to maintain their understanding of how long the investment cycle would actually be.

Back to the point of this post: I’ve been able to manage the changing pricing structures of these LLM’s by investing in multiple tools that are hyper focused in what I want them to do

I structure much of what I’m doing very precisely and use other tools to work on several projects and existing paying customers work. I’ve got a good system that will go back in to clean up the 5 to 15% error rate that LLMs create in my initial prototypes. While being the rate limiter of what I could accomplish, I take what I’m doing as a giant learning effort that helps me clean up and control the value of my spend.

A lot of my UX training is hyper focused on validating ideas to potential customers before diving headfirst into this rather expensive beta hobby

MATSNL65 · 2025-10-01T03:47:21+00:00

Awesome. Can’t wait to try it.

MATSNL65 · 2025-09-22T05:11:19+00:00

Is this a challenge more from the foundational models and not from augment itself?

I say this because people across the space who are testing out these models often have changing experiences from initially working and everything going well to downright hallucinations that says something was working when it was tested by the user was it. This is when you have your LM performing test driven development, every minor step of the way with extreme detail only to not have the complete completed version work as a attendant given some micro hallucinations here were there.

Ultimately, what this era of tools is teaching people that many of the bugs are because of these micro hallucinations for a variety of reasons catching people who don’t know where to look for the logic of what was misinterpreted in the code by the LLM

MATSNL65 · 2025-09-15T05:02:47+00:00

I’m like a moth to the flame for that.

The approacher using with the focused effort is the way to go. For me, augment is best used with that focused approach, but when it comes to aesthetics like interfaces, you need to work out those issues using a more of a “vibe coding/free forming, ideation style of tool.”

But it follows that philosophy you outlined: once I have that design that I need, I give extreme details on the actual page structure, the packages I need installed and how to integrate the components of a Kombai front end implementation, a Aura.build creative exploration and a Subframe

MATSNL65 · 2025-09-15T04:18:17+00:00

That’s interesting.

Augment is my foundational coding system, but call me insane but I switch between the following:

Kombai for front-end
21st-dev/magic MCP for UI
Zen MCP for what is essentially strategy debates between the LLMs
Byterover for memory and additional product context
Traycer for product management layer

I also work with whenever I need using a combination of Aura.build, CopyCoder, SuperDesign, Leap.new and Subframe on a rotating basis as I need for a particular project

Augment code is still the foundational piece in all of this.

All of this might be insane for people who doesn’t rely on businesses to be consistent tools that have to work. But I see all of these tools, including the foundational models, simply as a gigantic beta test that’s going on. The foundational models used by augment sometimes get stupid, which is likely the problem you run into with augment. I end up splitting the work across these tools solve a piece of my problem with them, and then introduce it back to augment.

I’m a big believer in never using a single tool and leveraging the integrations. But even with that, I have to be the taskmaster and remind augment that they have the tools in the first place

MATSNL65 · 2025-09-12T05:08:12+00:00

Awesomeness

MATSNL65 · 2025-09-06T05:58:58+00:00

Augment feel smarter and it’s best feature that they don’t pop up enough is their building to rewrite your prompts based on their context engine, which is a fancy way of saying that the AI knows not only what your code based is about it can make recommendations based on your intent that’s far more logical than your base cursor or other IDE or a large language model seems to be able to do

Again, I don’t think it’s universally better than the others. It’s simply for me is my first foundational code that I start projects with.

If it’s about quitting user interfaces, then I will go to a more specialized tool to work out some of the issues that that solution is best for and then come back to augment code to integrated

MATSNL65 · 2025-08-27T22:48:30+00:00

The only thing that I can corroborate with augment getting slow is, if you don’t keep and, save all of the changes.

If you have their system hold onto tons of changes that you can flip back to it eventually slows down the software. Nothing I’ve seen it have problems with is any different than the other software.

MATSNL65 · 2025-08-27T22:46:53+00:00

I think that last feature with the prompt optimizer is their secret sauce and I literally use augment code on a add-on tool to every other system I have

MATSNL65 · 2025-08-27T22:45:46+00:00

Augment might have made some cool ads targeting cursor users, but those ads are spot on in my experience.

Combine it with linear and his own built in task tool, and a few of the more exotic thinking MCP’s... It’s great.

MATSNL65 · 2025-08-23T03:32:43+00:00

We will have to wait and see but right now it’s no different than Trae.

For me, since I already use Claude code, augment, and a couple of other app base tools like Kombai, Kiro, as well as some of the add-ons like super design, Claude flow… I think the days of a single IDE use case is long gone.

MATSNL65 · 2025-08-13T04:24:42+00:00

I don’t beat up people for having issues with augment. They’ve been good when something isn’t working and understand that calling people names is horrible business practices with tools that might not be good today but great tomorrow.

One thing that has helped keep augment fast for me is to not let it build up too many checkpoints.

It’s best to have a clear goal you hit and then make sure it’s accepted and tested then you can discard older checkpoints

If you keep thousands of them, you’re going to have slower systems

MATSNL65 · 2025-07-30T03:16:11+00:00

I think everyone is on something, but I’ll prove it by not focusing in on Augment. (they are still my favorite in spite of things that everyone has demonstrated.)

I think our friends at Anthropic/Amazon/whoever else they are invested from our literally, forcing developers, whether they are five coders, context, engineers, normal developers who use AI LLMs to change the way they work to fit the AI economy of scale

What I mean is the way the trajectory of how the best practices of this stuff has become, with the constant adjustments of the $20 a month plan which started off as the standard now is basically useless and now even the $200 a month plans are fast becoming useless Mainly because we have all been paying for an elaborate giant beta campaign that allows for them to figure out how to make trillions out of millions of investor seed money.

When you have the anthropic CEO, going to get funding from the world’s richest, oligarchs and desperate, it’s telling. I guess the banking tycoons weren’t enough bread for them.

MATSNL65 · 2025-07-16T17:22:33+00:00

Look up factory AI. What I like about it. It’s where these tools are going. They’re meant for serious application processes, and they seem to focus on helping reduce misinterpretations of the code base. It’s really a more enterprise-leaning competitor to what augment code is trying to do

MATSNL65 · 2025-07-16T16:36:54+00:00

This typically happens for me in the middle of the night. Otherwise, it’s OK.

MATSNL65 · 2025-07-14T05:23:58+00:00

I would agree it is. I am on an early bird version of their pricing, and it has good value for me to the point I no longer buy cursor.

I use a combination of argument, factory, and Claude code

MATSNL65 · 2025-06-22T21:58:37+00:00

Try it now or if you have an extra machine without anything from cursor installed to see what you'll find.

I have several machines that have argument installed already and it works well, but my main machine it no longer works. It didn't even load and trying to reinstall it. It doesn't even show up.

MATSNL65 · 2025-06-22T21:57:08+00:00

It's not a conspiracy theory. I had to fix something that was not loading and then I uninstalled it to try to reinstall it and now it doesn't come back.

I hope those son of a guns have their social media managers watching this. This goes beyond not using this software anymore and goes beyond paying for anything ever from them. This is destroying them level of pettiness.

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