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Firebender, powerful coding agent in IntelliJ in 70 seconds

firebender.com
1 points·by kevo1ution·vor 10 Monaten·0 comments

Respect Term=Agent Please

firebender.com
3 points·by kevo1ution·vor 11 Monaten·3 comments

Show HN: First background agents in Jetbrains IDEs [video]

youtube.com
9 points·by kevo1ution·vor 11 Monaten·2 comments

Dear Android Engineers

firebender.com
3 points·by kevo1ution·vor 11 Monaten·1 comments

GPT-5 at top of Kotlin bench

firebender.com
1 points·by kevo1ution·vor 11 Monaten·0 comments

Claude Opus 4 worse than Sonnet on Kotlin Bench

firebender.com
1 points·by kevo1ution·letztes Jahr·0 comments

Most comprehensive review of AI coding agents for Kotlin/Android tasks

jasonpearson.dev
2 points·by kevo1ution·letztes Jahr·0 comments

One Source of Truth for AI (by Android engineer)

kau.sh
1 points·by kevo1ution·letztes Jahr·0 comments

Llama 4 performance on Kotlin/Android coding tasks

firebender.com
3 points·by kevo1ution·letztes Jahr·0 comments

Show HN: Firebender, a simple coding agent for Android Engineers

docs.firebender.com
53 points·by kevo1ution·letztes Jahr·18 comments

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Show HN: Firebender – A Dead Simple Coding Assistant in Android Studio

firebender.com
6 points·by kevo1ution·vor 2 Jahren·0 comments

Ubicloud hosted Arm runners, 100x better price/performance

ubicloud.com
4 points·by kevo1ution·vor 2 Jahren·2 comments

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kevo1ution
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
congrats on the launch. i'm curious how you think about on device AI vs providers that are in the cloud. where do you see the capabilities of models that can run on the phone, and are there inherent advantages to this?
kevo1ution
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
nice but seriously: how do i turn on ad block? don't want to see ads on youtube
kevo1ution
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
pulling a cursor on google chrome lol
kevo1ution
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
there's a long tail of edge cases where a smaller model does something dumb with input/output, which causes a decent amount of pain to the user (e.g. nodemon, do we stop/do we start?). Coding agent developers can't make an opinion on every possible terminal command

maybe what we're asking for is that terminal commands keep in mind that agents are now the primary users of them, and have a feeling that new packages or commands could get wider adoption if they are better understood by a coding agent

- similar to SEO for LLMs growing in adoption - documentation sites offering .md file raw for LLMs to ingest easily

These things will make it so that your packages or libs adopted faster
kevo1ution
·vor 11 Monaten·discuss
most terminal commands are being run by AI. we need a standard way to tell terminal commands to be token efficient/non-interactive
kevo1ution
·vor 11 Monaten·discuss
I'll keep it simple, here's Firebender, a coding agent in android studio, in 30 seconds.
kevo1ution
·letztes Jahr·discuss
really excited for the NFC support
kevo1ution
·letztes Jahr·discuss
disabling history on YouTube disables short feeds and recommendations on the home page. It takes 10 seconds and has saved easily thousands of hours and mental sanity.

Also, if you ever want to revisit a video, just use chromes history, but you'll find also this rarely happens if ever.
kevo1ution
·letztes Jahr·discuss
That is correct, and is definitely a problem. basically there should be a button that toggles for no code data leaving the network (unless its the proxy you configured). Right now you have to be aware of what features do and don't rely on the proxy which is not a good UX. At the very least there should be modal popup asking for an override or cancel on features that require our custom models.

I can solidify this option with stronger guarantees.

Separately, we're working on Soc II at the moment and should have type 1 soon, and type 2 pending the observation period.

I know trusting my word is difficult bc I'm a random person on the internet, but we do NOT store you code data or use your code data to improve our product in any way (like training models).
kevo1ution
·letztes Jahr·discuss
> Which suggests that there's always some cloud component? How usable is the plugin with fully local setup?

right now requests go directly to your proxy from the plugin if you have it configured (i.e. if you set up a clean VPC/VPN network environment with no outbound requests besides anthropic): both chat, cmdk, and agent will work. We are still working on the DevX for this, but need someone to work closely on this. Enterprise is also pushing us to make this more friendly.

But there are massive downsides, we use some custom models and hosting infrastructure to speed things up. For example, code edits will take much longer.

For fully local LLMs, we just need to setup a unified API client, but there aren't any good kotlin ones and I'm scrambling to write this from scratch. It is very annoying how there are different nuances in the anthropic/openai/etc. and all the "Open source" gateways are cloud hosted. I don't think people will want to "host" a gateway locally, the best experience is to just to put your keys/base url in settings which could be localhost:3000.
kevo1ution
·letztes Jahr·discuss
just read this - that is definitely a bug. email me at [email protected] please and I can fix this bug asap for you
kevo1ution
·letztes Jahr·discuss
only the AI agent, master of all 4 ecosystems, could stop them, but...
kevo1ution
·letztes Jahr·discuss
it works with flutter. we many active flutter developers in our discord too that will flame us if we introduce any bugs for them. its good because then we can fix this asap.

same is true for intellij and kotlin/java support
kevo1ution
·letztes Jahr·discuss
didn't expect you to comment here - really appreciate the kind words! I have a ton of respect for what y'all are doing and actually making a hardware product, AR glasses. Let me know if you need anymore old Android phones for you to brick, can bike over again and hand them over :)
kevo1ution
·letztes Jahr·discuss
this is fixed now. Added Firebender Corp (registered in Delaware), with addresses. Let me know if anything else is missing!

about: https://firebender.com/about

terms: https://firebender.com/tos

privacy: https://firebender.com/privacy
kevo1ution
·letztes Jahr·discuss
wow, thanks for taking the time to go through the website and call out what you're seeing. I'm going to fix both of the About Us and address issue in privacy policy. I'll respond again after I'm done.
kevo1ution
·letztes Jahr·discuss
for some reason, I keep thinking "hugh janus" when I see the name
kevo1ution
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
going from tax api reverse engineering to making it easier to reverse engineer any API is smart pivot
kevo1ution
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
we're working on this right now. Expect to see auto-complete, and cmd+K functionality this week!
kevo1ution
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
makes sense! Excited for y'all