GML 4.6 (also 4.5) is a Worth-Trying Open Weight Model
It’s been a while since we’ve had an open-weight model that felt truly exciting to dig into. Right now, it’s still mostly the Frontier Labs leading the charge — they’ve always had the money, resources, and polish, but of course, they come with some cost. Honestly, I miss the days when Deep Seek showed up and shook up the whole industry. That kind of disruption feels rare these days. But we might be close to another one of those moments. The stuff ZAI has been cooking up lately is seriously impressive
This comes with this amazing performance:
- 48.6% win rate against Claude Sonnet 4
- 30% more token efficient
- 200K context window
yet, it comes with this wild economis
- $0.60/$2.20 per million tokens (vs Claude’s $3/$15)
This Tweet from Kilo Code is so true.
At $3/month for their “GLM Coding Plan,” it’s cheaper than your streaming service.
Tool Configuration Nightmare
The problem that every engineer is facing right now is how to manage plethora of AI tools nicely/effortlessly.
Here’s the tweet from shadcn.
This is every engineer’s shared experience right now for sure. It’s literally madness. We have so many documents and commands and configs scattered around.
Baby Step: Centrally Managing Global Slash Commands (Claude) / Workflows (Kilo)
Since the companies probably won’t agree on a standard protocol anytime soon, we have to hack together a baby step.
One of my biggest pain points, also what seemed easy toto solve was Slash Commands (Claude) / Workflows (Kilo).
Claude stores slash commands here:
~/.claude/commandsKilo Code stores workflows here:
~/.kilocode/workflowsSo why not just symlink one to the other?
ln -s $(pwd)/claude/.claude/commands $(pwd)/kilocode/.kilocode/workflowsNow I can write once, reuse in both tools. It’s not elegant, but it saves me from re-copying or re-learning syntax.
More To Go: AGENTS.md and MCPs
AGENTS.md
When it comes to documentation, we have AGENTS.md. Let’s wait and see Anthropic adopt it as a shared format.
MCP Servers
I ended up needing to write some scripts. Explained in this post.
