Case Studies Reviews & Guides
Expert reviews and guides for case studies.
I Was Laid Off With 60 Days of Savings. I Built a Job Search Pipeline With Kimi K3.
40 applications, 6 interviews, 2 offers in five weeks — after a layoff with a mortgage and 60 days of runway. This is the exact Kimi K3 pipeline I used: JD keyword extraction, resume tailoring without lying, cover letters that don't smell like AI, and interview prep from the posting itself.
I Made Kimi K3 My Database Analyst for a Week: 47 Tables, Real Queries, a $2.17 Bill
I handed Kimi K3 a messy 47-table Postgres schema and asked for real analytics — cohort retention, JSONB unnesting, a window-function rewrite of a query that took 40 seconds. It caught a bad index I'd forgotten about. Here's the full week, including the two times it confidently got the dialect wrong.
I Built a Full SaaS App with Kimi K3 in 8 Hours — Here's the Code, the Bugs, and the Verdict
I challenged myself to build a complete SaaS app using only Kimi K3 in a single workday. 8 hours, 147 files, 3 critical bugs — and a working product that surprised me.
A Working Developer's One-Month Diary with Kimi K3: The Good, the Cheap, and the Weird
No benchmarks, no launch hype — just four weeks of real freelance work logged day by day on Kimi K3. What actually got shipped, what the bills looked like, and three behaviors I still can't fully explain.
Kimi K3 for Academic Writing: I Tested It on a Real 6,000-Word Paper
Can K3 write a publishable academic paper section? I ran a full academic workflow — outline, lit review, methods description, results interpretation — on a real research project. The citation accuracy is better than GPT models, but there's one trap that will get you rejected.