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blog.kilo.ai 5mo ago

Was Cline just acqui-hired by OpenAI?

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github.com 6mo ago

Kilo CLI – Agentic Orchestration from the Terminal

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blog.kilo.ai 7mo ago

The Minimum Every Developer Must Know About AI Models (No Excuses)

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blog.kilocode.ai 11mo ago

Grace Hopper Would Love AI Coding

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blog.kilocode.ai 1y ago

Control Your AI Development Budget Bleed

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blog.kilocode.ai 1y ago

Kilo Code 4.20.0 Adds Cline's /Newtask Command for Context Preservation

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www.microsoft.com 1y ago

RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code

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blog.kilocode.ai 1y ago

Beyond Vibe Coding: What I Discovered Testing 10 AI Coding Tools

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Investigating truthfulness in a pre-release o3 model

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Understanding How Claude Thinks

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Frontier AI Models Still Fail at Basic Physical Tasks

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The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages – Kevlin Henney [video]

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blog.kilocode.ai 1y ago

Roo or Cline? We're building a superset

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Frans Rosén parts ways with Detectify

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Show HN: We are bringing back crowd.dev for community-focused teams

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60% of cloud workloads will be built and deployed using CDEs

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Unlock any CLI using biometrics with 1Password Shell Plugins

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How Does Gitlab Stand Up to “GitHub Actions Limitations and Gotchas”?

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Winners and losers from first release of 2020 census data

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Kilo DevRel here. We built the Kilo CLI because other CLI tools either lock you into one AI coding model, or make you jump through hoops to switch. We wanted agentic coding in the terminal with the same flexibility you'd get from the Kilo IDE setup.

What makes it different:

- 500+ models (including everyone’s favorites from Claude, Gemini, OpenAI). Switch anytime - 5 specialized modes: Code, Ask, Debug, Architect, and Orchestrator (breaks down tasks and delegates to the others) - Parallel agents: spin up multiple instances on the same repo, each on its own branch - Session continuity: start in CLI, pick up in Kilo VS Code or cloud. Context travels with you

--parallel --auto for running multiple autonomous agents simultaneously is a favorite. It’s the same engine as our IDE extensions, not a stripped-down version.

Install: npm install -g @kilocode/cli

Also: open source, and contributions are welcome. Would love feedback on what's missing from your terminal workflow.

Vibe engineering 10 months ago

1000% this. Today LLMs are like enthusiastic, energetic, over-confident, well-read junior engineers.

Does it take effort to work with them and get them to be effective in your code base? Yes. But is there a way to lead them in such a way that your "team" (you in this case) gets more done? Yes.

But it does take effort. That's why I love "vibe engineering" as a term because the engineering (or "senior" or "lead" engineering) is STILL what we are doing.

Shitty AI bro here.

I would love to know if and how you disagree. I am (I thought obviously) making a jump here from her desire to make FLOW-MATIC human-readable. Also, I don't believe that AI will take developers's jobs, but I do believe a developer using AI will replace ones not using it...so I'm intentionally provocative there, yes.

It's probably true in our industry too - I'm sure that when people started using programming languages instead of writing machine code people looked down on them too.

This will be another abstraction layer that MANY people will use and be able to accomplish things that would have been impossible to do in a reasonable amount of time in machine code.

Our plan is to be a superset of Cline and Roo's features (we already have all the major features from both) [0]

We also have our own provider, which means no need to bring your own API keys (you can if you like, but it is batteries included by default) and we're not charging anything on top of the API pricing. Instead of monetizing on individual developers, we want it to be free for them and make money eventually off enterprise contracts [1]

[0] https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/roo-or-cline-were-building-a-supe... [1]: https://kilocode.ai

Raw model I got

   Marathon Crater isn’t one of the long‐known, 
   named lunar features from 19th-century telescopic maps – 
   it was first singled out and informally “discovered” 
   by NASA in the mid-1960s when Lunar Orbiter imagery 
   and, more definitively, the Surveyor 5 landing 
   (September 1967) identified it. So, very roughly, 
   think “around 1966–67.”

You’re not wrong but also this does raise a central question that I think is super un-considered in this whole MCP thing: how are we handling identity in those contexts.

If anything we should be more concerned so it that because of the power that it can hand over to agents.

I was a skeptic until I started seeing it this way. I do think that this is exactly why we’ve seen LLMs overtake search engines so quickly in the last 12-18 months. They allow a feedback loop that just doesn’t exist scrolling and clicking.

I think we can assume even if it is any voting power, it’s far less than 14%. No startup growing like that would give up shares with the same voting rights as the founders

Especially since the cost in some (most?) cases won’t be from the MCP server but from the LLM using it