Kimi K3 detects concurrent file edits, pauses to ask user — who was the human himself
serious_mehta · x · 2026-09-08
A developer was surprised when Kimi K3 noticed that "another process" was editing the same files, stopped, and asked whether it should continue or wait for the other process to stand down. The other process was the user himself, hand-writing code. The agent's awareness of workspace conflicts — and its attempt to coordinate with a human collaborator — makes for both an impressive engineering detail and a funny moment.
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