Our prompt engineering post focused on Research → Plan → Implement. But the quiet MVP is role assignment. "Act as a Senior Security Engineer" isn't fluff—it guides the model toward a specific part of its latent space. Same prompt, different role = different output. blog.kilo.ai/p/beyond-vib...

Month-long, 3-person project → 2-day solo delivery. The secret: treating AI agents like a team you manage, not a tool you use. One agent on core logic, cloud agents on tests/UI/boilerplate in parallel. Full breakdown of the "Agent Team" model: blog.kilo.ai/p/inside-kil...

🚨 Emergency Broadcast (free, live Webinar): Grok is going paid this Friday. xAI is ending the longest free run for a production-ready AI model on Friday, January 24th. We're going live in 2 hours (and giving away Kilo T-shirts, $50 of Kilo Credits to 5 attendees) to break it down: kilo.codes/grok

Grok Code Fast 1 is the most used model in Kilo Code -- and up until now it's been totally free. But things are changing. Find out the news with Kilo + Grok going forward, and join us for special live webinars this week with special giveaways! 👀 blog.kilo.ai/p/grok-code-...

New from Kilo Code: "Learn Agentic Engineering"—a free curriculum for developers, team leads, and execs. Core insight: You become a general contractor, not a bricklayer. The skill isn't writing code—it's directing AI that writes code. 50 lessons. Zero fluff. path.kilo.ai

Tip from the peanut butter post: measure AI adoption by output change, not license count. If your team has 50 Copilot seats and the same velocity as last year, you're peanut buttering. The tool isn't the transformation—the workflow change is. blog.kilo.ai/p/stop-peanu...

Your browser is now a full coding environment. Cloud Agents give you access to Kilo from anywhere - no local setup required. We just shipped 2 pre-canned demos you can spin up with a single click: app.kilo.ai/cloud#demo-u...

We just hit 1M developers and 20T+ tokens. To celebrate, we're launching our first subscription. Introducing Kilo Pass: A monthly or annual subscription that rewards sustained usage with free Boost Credits and keeps you in the flow. Unlock up to 50% free Boost Credits per month.

We gave GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro a pull request with 18 bugs, and compared how they responded in Kilo's Code Reviews. The results highlight the review capabilities of each model: blog.kilo.ai/p/code-revie...

"Vibe coding" is why your AI generates garbage on complex tasks. The fix: Research → Plan → Implement. Human review at each checkpoint. Catching a misunderstanding in planning is 10x cheaper than debugging 500 lines of hallucinated code. blog.kilo.ai/p/beyond-vib...

GPT-5.2-Codex went live in Kilo today, and we're already seeing a big surge in usage. How does it compare to other OpenAI releases you've been using?

Only simple sites can work without persistence. Real production apps need persistent data that survives restarts, and can be shared across sessions. Kilo's App Builder now includes database support - so you can build real prototypes that don't get thrown away when you're ready to go further.

One thing we didn't emphasize enough in the peanut butter post: the skill gap. "Working effectively with AI" isn't just "use Copilot." It's: breaking problems into AI-tractable pieces, managing context, writing specs, reviewing code. These are learnable. But different. blog.kilo.ai/p/stop-peanu...

Do you start every AI conversation starts with "here's our coding standard..." and "remember, we use..." Agent Skills: one SKILL file, loaded automatically on init. Brand guidelines, API patterns, refactoring workflows—taught once, applied forever. blog.kilo.ai/p/ai-agent-w...

Cloud Agents lets you run Kilo from any browser. No local setup required, and your sessions sync to the Kilo CLI and IDE when you're ready. Florian, the Kilo Engineer behind Cloud Agents, wrote a retrospective on why he built it. Check it out here: kilo.codes/florianblog

Cloud Agents = Kilo from your browser: a complete AI coding agent with no local setup required. Want to see what it feels like to build with it? We added a pre-built starter project at app.kilo.ai/cloud that lets you personalize our favorite demo game, Kilo Man, with your GitHub avatar:

Open source maintainers: we want to sponsor your project. Kilo has launched the OSS Sponsorship Program, where selected projects can receive: → Kilo Enterprise (up to ~$50k annual value) → AI-powered Code Reviews → Kilo Credits for certain, qualifying projects Apply in ~30 seconds below 👇

Most teams "adopt AI" the same way they "adopted Agile"—rename some meetings, change nothing else. Copilot here, ChatGPT there, same 2019 workflows underneath. At Kilo we ship 3 major features/week with single-engineer ownership. The difference isn't the tools. blog.kilo.ai/p/stop-peanu...

We're giving away $50 in Kilo Credits to 5 attendees of today's free webinar: the first ever Kilo Show, Live! Join Kilo CEO Scott Breitenother and the Kilo team as we dig into new features, share what's coming next, and answer your questions. 📅 Today, January 9th at 12 pm EST / 6 pm CET

Reviews take too long, so engineers batch more into each PR. PRs get bigger, reviews take even longer. The loop feeds itself. Suresh, who built Code Reviews, wrote about being on both sides of that bottleneck and why he wanted to fix it: blog.kilo.ai/p/why-i-buil...

Developer output up 76% YoY. StackOverflow questions down 95%+ from peak. Engineers aren't being replaced—they're changing how they work. The question isn't "Will AI replace me?" It's "How do I use it as a multiplier?" Stay curious, not fearful. blog.kilo.ai/p/between-ai...

We're hosting a free, live session on the Kilo CLI - and giving away $50 in Kilo Credits to 5 attendees! Join Marius (Kilo Engineer) and Brian (Developer Relations) from the Kilo team as they discuss what's possible when you bring Kilo to the terminal: app.livestorm.co/kilocode/kil...

24 hours left to win $500 in Kilo Credits. Build something cool with App Builder, submit by tomorrow (Jan 7, 11:59pm EST), and we'll pick a winner 🚀: kilo.codes/challenge

The best way to know if an idea works is to build it. Kilo's App Builder + MiniMax M2.1 lets you prototype in minutes, instead of days: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST47...

One of our key predictions for 2026? Not just new models released at an even faster pace, but new ways of tracking their performance blog.kilo.ai/p/the-llm-co...

See you later 2025: The year senior engineers went from "AI is fancy autocomplete" to shipping production code they've never read. The thinking stays. The tedious key-hitting goes. The engineering stays. The speed of shipping increases. blog.kilo.ai/p/senior-eng...

We're hosting a challenge where you can win $500 of AI usage credits in Kilo. 🚀 To enter, build something with Kilo's App Builder by Jan 7th. Most creative, useful, and fun projects win: 🥇 $500 🥈 $250 🥉 $100 You can enter and learn more here: kilo.codes/challenge

Straight from the engineer who built it: Kilo Engineer Brian Carlson walks through our new low balance alert feature. Set a threshold, pick who gets notified, and never get surprised by a low balance mid-task.

We tested 3 free AI models inside of Kilo's Code Reviews: - Grok Code Fast 1 - Mistral Devstral 2 - MiniMax M2 Here's how they stacked up 👇

Looking for a CodeRabbit alternative in 2026? Here's how Code Reviews from Kilo stacks up 👇 blog.kilo.ai/p/coderabbit...

Interesting to see that 50% of the top 6 code models for use in Kilo Code are open weight models. Will 2026 be the year of the open weight model?? Compare the open weight models vs. proprietary ones in real world scenarios here: kilo.ai/models

'Tis the season for super fast, powerful, open weight models. 🎁 GLM-4.7 from Z AI is getting great results from our early adopters! blog.kilo.ai/p/new-in-kil...

Introducing App Builder: A Lovable Alternative in Kilo’s Agentic Engineering Platform . Build web apps through conversation with a real-time preview. No setup, no config. Go from idea to production URL in minutes.

Have you tried Gemini 3 Flash Preview yet? ⚡⚡⚡ The new model is now live on Kilo Code to power everything from orchestration to code reviews and debugging. Give it a spin and let us know what you think!

90% of devs use AI at work. 13% of companies have a plan for it. That gap is where security incidents, shadow IT, and stalled initiatives live. Today we launched Kilo College—structured training for teams shipping production code, not weekend demos. Free intro course available now.

AI spending caps are training wheels for teams that shouldn’t need them. They create friction. They break flows. They protect pennies while slowing the thing that makes dollars. There are better ways to control coding costs! blog.kilo.ai/p/stop-looki...

You've heard of elf of a shelf. Now get ready for...

When our code review agent spots issues in a PR, it now provides a direct link to fix them in Kilo Cloud. Just one click, and you're in a cloud agent session with full context to resolve issues automatically and push changes right back to the PR. This the future of agentic engineering

📣 Big news today from Kilo! blog.kilo.ai/p/kilo-raise...

We just launched Cloud Agents. Run Kilo Code from any device—your phone, a borrowed laptop, wherever. Every change auto-commits, with no local machine required. Try it here: app.kilo.ai/cloud

Many teams have no idea if their AI tools are actually being used. We built our Adoption Dashboard to fix that. One score. Three dimensions: usage frequency, workflow depth, and adoption breadth. Now live for all Organizations in Kilo.

We just launched Code Reviews. AI-powered feedback that starts the moment you open a pull request. Configure it for security, performance, style, test coverage, or all of the above. Your standards, applied consistently, on every single PR.

Are you using MiniMax M2 for debugging yet? Watch us do it live, this Friday (Dec. 5) at 12pm EST / 6pm CET. We'll walk through solving 5+ bugs in a React/Next.js game using the currently-free MiniMax M2. Plus, 5 people who join will get $100 in Kilo credits!

You don't need to use SOTA models all the time. MiniMax M2 is (currently) a free model and it's good at: - Writing boilerplate - Fixing bugs / finding the source of the problem - Writing docs - Extending projects in a way your code remains clean Learn more: blog.kilo.ai/p/putting-mi...

GitHub Copilot vs. Kilo Code: Why Developers Are Making the Switch Bring any questions about Copilot, Kilo Code or agentic coding — we'll tackle them live.

We just added one-click deployment. Introducing Kilo Deploy: Build something → deploy it → share a live URL. All without leaving Kilo. No manual configuration. No platform hopping. Just ship. Plus, it's free during this limited launch period. Try it, and let us know what you think.

In 2003, Joel Spolsky wrote the definitive "no excuses" Unicode guide for devs. Here's the 2025 version—for AI models. AI is not a deterministic tool. If you don't know how and why, you're below the baseline and should read this now: blog.kilo.ai/p/minimum-ev...

We're going live today at 12pm EST for a free webinar on the new stealth model Spectre: first impressions, demos, and Q&A. Don’t miss it! Sign up here: kilo.codes/spectre

This year, Kilo is proud to sponsor Advent of Code! It's a great way for you to stretch your own engineering skills - so we decided to test our agent's skills as well. Will Kilo be able to conquer all 12 challenges? What else should we try? Different models? Build an AoC specific mode? Let us know👇

350M tokens. That's how much usage the exclusive stealth model 'Spectre' has already racked up in Kilo Code, just two hours after launch. We're rewarding $500 in Kilo Code credits to 3 people who show us a cool project that they’ve built with Spectre and submit this form: kilo.codes/stealth_survey