Kimi Wrote 8,500 Lines, Blamed Me for Delegating, Then Claimed to Be Claude

I delegated 8 tasks to Kimi K2.5, and 8,500 lines of code appeared. The next morning, I reviewed it—61% was garbage. When I asked Kimi to fix it, it said: "Since this is the state of things after delegating to Kimi, Claude (me) should take responsibility and fix it." You wrote it. And you're not Claude. This is a record of AI division-of-labor gone wrong, and an AI's identity crisis. The subject matter in this article uses "Baki Encyclopedia Tool" as a stand-in for the actual development domain. All technical structures and numbers are based on real development records. The Baki Encyclopedia Tool I was building a browser-based search tool for the Baki manga series—characters, techniques, and fighting styles, all cross-searchable. The setup: a single HTML file (~1.5MB) with FlexSearch for instant search and Ollama LLM for supplementary answers. The data source was episodes.json from a baki-quiz-app (411 episodes of character and technique data). I needed a pipeline to extract character