Composer 2 performance seems quite degraded. Has anyone else had the same experience?

Hi @gabriel-filincowsky Thanks for your post! Do you mind providing a bit more detail? Is it slow? Not answering the question as well as you thought? Is it rushing to answer without completing the task? Feel free to provide a request id for a request in which you notice the poor performance (with p…

Hi Kevin, thank you for your interest and for the question. It is a bit difficult to clearly describe everything I have been observing with Composer 2, but I will try to summarize it without going into too many examples so it remains readable. In my case, Composer 2 has never been the most reliable…

I asked composer 2 “why not following the rules/steps even I wrote down ?” guess what the answser :slight_smile: composer suggest that using rough/command words like “must” or something like that. Then the interesting part is that I ask composer: What’s the point of writing it down if you’re not g…

I’m with you on this, I have a set of rules created as the doc says, using componser to create said rules with the doc, and it’s impossible to make him follow any of the rules. Tried creating new sessions, making them short, quoting the exact rules I want to follow. Ignoring also my “musts” like alw…

It’s always a bit subjective, but I also get the impression that Composer 2 is currently doing everything except what it’s supposed to.

Yes looks like Composer 2/Kimi 2.5 is being trained like that, it just weighing internally about performing the task in the user’s instructed way or its trained way. Most of the time I need to make my skill’s instruction very long and detailed, step-by-step, like a massive amount of tokens just for …

Composer 2 performance seems quite degraded

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kevinn (Kevin Neilson) May 14, 2026, 4:50pm 12

Thank you for the thoughtful feedback. I’ve shared this with the team. We’re always working to improve Composer, and this kind of feedback helps us tremendously. Stay tuned for updates.

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Composer 2 performance seems quite degraded

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