00:00Hey guys, welcome back to this series of videos where I'm testing cheap open-source or openweight AIS versus something like Clawude Code with Opus 4.5
00:10Now, if you watched the video yesterday, I did actually successfully implement the featured image generator which I am trying to I was trying to implement on Harbor
00:22This was done with Clawude Code and Opus 4.5
00:25It pretty muches one-shot this entire thing
00:27So if you are a user of Harbor, you can now also generate featured images that look like this, right? It's like contextaware featured images
00:36So these are actual images from the website taken by nano banana and then with some text on top
00:41So that was what I was actually trying to build
00:43But what I really wanted to find out today was what happens if we do the same thing but with miniax m2.1 inside kilo code instead
00:52Now, the reason this is such an important test is because like I've been explaining over the last few days, the whole point of what I'm doing here is I'm trying to work out what happens if we use a cheaper AI instead of cla code
01:07So, let's just get started with that right now
01:10I'm just going to open up the harbor thing right here
01:12I'm just going to use cloud code quickly just to restore to an earlier version
01:16So, I'm just going to say restore my code here to a version that uh version before featured image generators were added, right? I'm choosing pl code for this just because it's just easier
01:35Okay, so we should be there
01:35So, now I'm just going to say get the project running on convex plus nex.js
01:40Right, so that'll start getting it running
01:44Now, let's just go to Mini Max's website
01:49Miniax M2.1
01:52Now, this thing did impress me the other day
01:54I'm very curious to see what will happen with Kilo Code plus Miniax
01:55If you don't know, Kilo Code is actually extremely good
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03:08Um, and also, yeah, Miniax is also pretty damn good as well
03:12I'm going to try and use their API, so I'll be back in a second
03:14Okay, so Miniax actually has quite a lot
03:16So, Miniax Halo, which is video, speech
03:21Damn, this is pretty cool, actually
03:23Now, one thing I have to say about these companies though is they're really, really kind of not fair at all with um sponsorships
03:32Like, they will not sponsor me
03:33They email me and they say, "Yeah, can we sponsor your channel?" And then when I'm like, "Yeah, okay." they just instantly say, "Yeah, but uh you just get free tokens by the way, bro." And it's just like I don't really want that
03:43So, I'm I'm not actually being sponsored by them um because they refuse to actually pay me, but they just get free videos instead, which is kind of annoying
03:52Um okay, so it does say to use it inside code
03:54I'm am going to use it in Kilo, though, because I'm just curious to see what happens if we use this inside kilo code instead
04:02Okay, so I'm going to use my own API key
04:04So, let's just go to Kilo code here
04:09By the way, if anyone is watching from Miniax and you do want to sponsor me, let me know
04:12Uh, that would be really, really cool
04:14So, let's just go to providers here and we'll just search for Miniax
04:19Miniax entry point API.io
04:22Okay, users in China know in Miniax API key
04:25Enter the API key from here
04:25I actually do not have any credit or anything right now
04:30So, I haven't got any credit
04:32I haven't got a coding plan
04:34I haven't got anything
04:34Um, I don't know how much these are
04:36$2
04:36Okay, 20 bucks a month is not that bad at all
04:40Um, I think what I'll do is I'll just start with a $2 plan
04:45Let's see if we can actually get anything done with this
04:49Okay, so we have 100 prompts every 5 hours
04:53We have a secret key right here
04:53So, we should be able to just set that here
04:59And we want to use M2.1
04:59Save
04:59Done
05:04Okay, looks good
05:04Let's get the prompt from yesterday
05:06Let's just make sure the code has been completely reset
05:12Um, so we're looking for featured image
05:14Featured image does not exist
05:16Beautiful
05:18Okay, so let's just get the project running on the side here
05:20I am using claw code for that, but like you don't have to
05:23It's just, you know, just easier to be honest with you
05:25If there's one thing I can say about this entire thing is I wouldn't get rid of claw code anyway
05:30maybe go down to the $20 plan if possible or just use Haiku, but you still need Claude code in my opinion because it's just so damn helpful for getting getting done, right? So, let's just double triple check that we don't have any uh featured image stuff on the local stuff, right? So, if I go to generate here, there should be no image thing on the side
05:52Beautiful
05:52So, this is the commit before we added featured images
05:54And we're just going to grab this prompt here
05:59Beautiful
05:59and we'll put it here inside Orchestrator and then we'll just let it rip and we'll see what happens
06:05This is quite exciting to be honest with you
06:06Is it possible that we can do a better job with Kilo code than Claude Code? That is the question I'm trying to answer today
06:20If it's possible, guys, it might be worth noting the $200 plan anymore
06:25In my head, I'm starting to think along the lines of we talked about this a lot yesterday
06:31Cheap models for the actual coding and then claw code for $20 plan, right? Which doesn't get you a lot of use
06:39I understand that to just do, you know, other things, right? Yeah
06:43So, I I don't really know
06:46I'm just I'm just kind of experimenting with this um whole thing about cost versus trustworthiness
06:50I know a lot of people have different opinions on this, but like the whole point is, you know, there's a lot of people who can't afford these types of prices every month, right? So, they're the people I'm making these videos for
07:05If you can afford this monthly, this video is not really for you except, you know, to be interested in
07:12Now, I know that this isn't exactly a fair test between um Miniax and GLM, right? because I'm not I'm not using Claude code this time
07:21Last time I used Claude Code with GLM
07:24This time I'm using um Kilo code with Miniax
07:27So, I know it's not a fair kind of comparison between those two, but I just have a feeling that Kilo plus Miniax is going to absolutely destroy this
07:38I don't know why
07:39I just really feel like it's just going to Yeah
07:42tear things up
07:42So, we'll see for sure
07:45This is quite an exciting test, actually, to be honest with you
07:49And I may have to top up, right? I don't really know
07:51This is probably going to cost a lot of tokens, so I probably will have to top up at some point
07:55Uh, but we'll see
07:57We'll see
07:57We'll see
08:00Okay
08:00So, because I thorough thoroughly believe in not pissing about and lying to people
08:06There is actually it it tried to use Dali, right? So, I'm just quickly changing something quickly so that it uses Gemini instead of Dali
08:15It's okay though
08:19It happens
08:22Luckily, it came back to me before starting and was like, "Do you like this plan? Is this plan good?" Um, and I'm just going to say design looks good
08:30Proceed to implementation code mode
08:30I don't want to change too much, but I just wanted to make sure that it used the correct model
08:35Obviously, I don't want it to use the wrong model
08:36So, now we will let it build
08:38So, that did take a little bit of time
08:42This is what we got
08:44Um, this is interesting
08:44I have to say this might actually be better
08:51Let's see
08:51Um, okay
08:55Yeah
08:55Generate image
08:55Does it generate first time? Nah, surely not
08:57Okay
08:57It's not quite [laughter] I don't know why there's a dog there
09:06Um, okay
09:08I'm not sure why there's a dog
09:12Okay
09:12Save template
09:12Sure
09:12Okay
09:12Okay, there's the template
09:15Boom
09:18Okay
09:18Okay
09:18Then we go to articles, select a preset
09:20I do have one selected
09:25I mean, overall, it's done a pretty phenomenal phenomenal job
09:27Um, obviously there's something wrong with the um with the template system because it just generated a picture of a dog for some reason for two men, which makes no sense, but I guess it's because of this prompt, I guess
09:42Um, little bit messed up there with the front end stuff
09:46Generate image
09:46Let's see what we get this time
09:52Okay, it does seem kind of random
09:52I'm not really sure where like what the relevance of the images are
09:58So, this is one of the really fascinating things about doing this with loads of different AIS, right? It's actually this there's two things
10:04First of all, this SVG is 100 times better than what Claude created
10:08Second of all, it's actually added this section here, which I'm definitely going to actually add to the kind of official Harbor release
10:18Okay, guys
10:18So, like I kind of alluded to at the start of the video, I don't think that this is purely just kilo code versus claude code necessarily
10:26I know that the title and thumbnail whatever, but what I think the best combo here is reducing the cost by using kilo code plus miniax m2.1 or GLM 4.7 and then using claw code just to kind of get things working
10:45That's what I did just now
10:48basically used cloud code just to get everything working because it wasn't working at the very end and I just wanted to actually, you know, get a result
10:55So yeah, this is what it created
11:01Overall, this did a better job than uh GLM 4.7 inside Claude Code for sure
11:07Like a significantly better job to be honest with you
11:08Uh it just couldn't get the final part of this correct
11:11Also, the quality is not very good here
11:16Overall, Claude Code with Opus 4.5 did a much better job
11:19Uh, it this is like comparative to Opus 4.5 inside Claude Code
11:26This is worse, right? But not significantly worse
11:30It's definitely worse
11:32Um, but Claude Code did the same thing yesterday when I did it
11:34It didn't have the kind of items from the business
11:39It didn't have the logo
11:43Actually, I'm not using the right reset
11:45Let's just double check
11:49Let's just really quickly check if it can do the logo
11:51So, yeah, these are all problems that Claw Code also had yesterday, right? I had to spend maybe half an hour to an hour making everything perfect
12:00But in terms of like the the creation of the feature, which is what I'm trying to test, it's done a fantastic job
12:08Like, it's got a better SVG than Claude Code
12:09It's got these really nice things at the bottom here
12:13better than Claude code
12:13These templates better than Claude code honestly
12:16Um and just a lot of other things as well
12:19So it is taking the logo
12:21You can see this is the two men logo
12:23So actually this is pretty close to what I got from Claude Opus 4.5
12:29Now the issue arises and I've talked about this a fair amount
12:34The issue arises here with the trustworthiness
12:38I don't know whether what's been built is actually good, right? Because I didn't watch it
12:43I could have watched everything
12:46I didn't really want to
12:47Um, but like the trustworthiness, I just don't know that
12:51However, the cost the cost of this is $2 a month, right? And I haven't even used my I don't know how that's possible
13:02They must be They definitely used more than 100 prompts, right? So, let's just quickly log in to the API API platform
13:10Uh, let's see if we can see usage
13:13Maybe that's impossible
13:16That's impossible
13:16I don't know how that what
13:20Nah, there's no way
13:23I don't understand
13:26But yeah, guys, I'm going to leave the video there
13:27That was pretty impressive
13:28It was pretty fun as well, to be honest with you, building that
13:30Um, I'm going to go with the Opus 4.5 one just because, you know, I've actually implemented it now
13:37It's perfect
13:37But I will be adding a few sections from the Miniax one that we did today
13:44So, for example, I'm going to add these this section here because I love it
13:48Probably at the bottom here
13:51And then I do like how it's done the templates as well
13:56To be honest with you, it does need something like that, right? And I do kind of like a few other things as well
14:03So, honestly, oh yeah, the SVG
14:05Honestly, very, very good job
14:05Very interesting, guys
14:07I'm going to keep testing this
14:08I'll probably do codeex 5.2 tomorrow, uh, just because people have been asking for it
14:12I'll leave the video there, guys
14:14Thank you so much for watching, watching all the way to the end of the video
14:16You're an absolute legend
14:16I'll see you very, very soon with some more content
14:17Peace out.
