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THE TEASER
Silicon Valley giants want you to believe you need a $20/month cloud subscription to get “agentic” coding help. One dev just proved them wrong—delivering 100 % local, 100 % free, 100 % private AI pair-programming in six trading sessions—all inside the little-known Void IDE. Here’s the play-by-play.

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MARKET CONTEXT
• Cursor: freemium, cloud-locked.
• Windsurf: still phones home.
• Kimi-IDE (our story): zero telemetry, 18 GB model, zero dollars.

The takeaway: If you can unzip a file, you can now match GitHub Copilot’s output without giving Microsoft your codebase.

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THE SIX-DAY SPRINT (TRADING-HOUR TIMESTAMPS)

DAY 0, 9:30 AM – POSITION ENTRY

Ticker: VOID-USD (unlisted, but 70 MB market-cap).
Action: Download portable AppImage, launch, kill telemetry. Net cost: $0.

DAY 1, 10:15 AM – GROUNDWORK

Bash block heard round the world:

mkdir ~/void-kimi && cd ~/void-kimi
npm init -y
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/master/scripts/hf.sh -o dl.sh
chmod +x dl.sh

Developer sentiment flips: “Wait, I can pull a 4-bit Kimi-K2 in one line?”

DAY 2, 11:22 AM – THE 18 GB WHALE TRADE

Execution:

./dl.sh moonshotai/Kimi-K2-4bit-Q4_K_M.gguf ./models/

Network graph spikes to 1.2 Gbps for 12 minutes; download completes before lunch. Resume logic built-in—no re-starts.

DAY 3, 1:47 PM – INFRASTRUCTURE PLAY

Static binary drop:

curl -L https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases/download/b3000/llama-server-linux-x64 \

-o vendor/llama-server

chmod +x vendor/llama-server

Command npm run serve:local spins up GPU-backed REST endpoint on port 8000. First response latency: 87 ms.

DAY 4, 3:03 PM – THE SWITCH

Config file leak:

// .void/settings.json
{
"ai.provider": "custom",
"ai.custom.endpoint": "http://localhost:8000/v1",
"ai.custom.model": "kimi-k2-4bit"
}

Result: Void’s AI panel now streams from the user’s RTX 4090 instead of OpenRouter.

DAY 5, 4:11 PM – OPTIONS BOARD

Two commands added to status bar: • Kimi: Use Local (default)
• Kimi: Use Cloud (YAML toggle for OpenAI / Anthropic)

Risk profile: zero unless the user explicitly flips the switch.

DAY 6, 9:45 AM – LOCK-UP & DISTRIBUTION

GitHub Action ships a tar.gz + AppImage combo at 119 MB—smaller than a single episode of Succession.
Release tag: v0.1.0-free.
Estimated retail value: whatever Microsoft charges for Copilot Pro.

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WHAT ANALYSTS MISSED
• Privacy premium: Wall Street assumed users would pay for cloud secrecy. Void-Kimi proves privacy is now free.
• Latency arbitrage: Local inference beats cloud round-trips by 200-400 ms—fatal for real-time pair-programming.
• Cost curve collapse: GPU amortization + open weights = $0 marginal cost.

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THE ONE-MINUTE TRADE FOR READERS
1. curl -L https://github.com/your-org/void-kimi/releases/latest/download/void-kimi-linux.tar.gz | tar xz
2. ./void-kimi.AppImage
3. Ctrl+L → “Generate a full-stack React + FastAPI app with tests.”
4. Watch the agent stream diffs; click Accept when green.

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BOTTOM LINE
While incumbents race to raise subscription prices, the open-source community just front-ran them with a six-day, zero-dollar build. Ticker symbol may be imaginary, but the disruption is very real.

BREAKING: How a Lone Developer Just Flipped the AI IDE Market on Its Head—Using Nothing but Void, a 70 MB Code Editor, and an Open-Weight Model Named Kimi