CTO & Head of AI | ex-YCCTO & Head of AI | ex-YC

Anaconda acquired Kilo today. Almost 10 trillion tokens a month, used by more than 3 million developers. Congratulations to everyone at Kilo, especially those I had the pleasure of working with.

I had my birthday last week, time to reflect on the past year. So, cue the obligatory staring-into-the-distance photo. Here goes. Almost everything good about the past year came down to the people in it. Which, it turns out, is the oldest bet in startups: YC funds people, not ideas. Ideas pivot, markets move, the team compounds. I co-founded Klime this year, out of the Hacker building, alongside Robert Gaal, Stefan Borsje and Patrick Nijssen, people I really enjoy spending my days with. Before that, a chapter at Kilo, and people there I'd work with again in a heartbe...meer

What is your favorite agent skill? And why is it /grill-me? The biggest risk with AI agents isn't bad execution. It's thinking your plan is clear when it isn't. I used to handle that by hand. I'd tell the AI to debate me, poke holes in the plan, play devil's advocate. It pushed back for exactly one reply, then went right back to agreeing with everything I said. /grill-me, a tiny skill by Matt Pocock, keeps the pressure on. The whole thing is about ten lines. Before the agent builds anything, it interviews the plan. One question at a time. What's ambiguous, what's as...meer

I have Claude Code sessions running across 4 projects and no idea which one just finished. Claude Code's VS Code extension (v2.1.70) just added a sidebar that shows all your sessions continuously (no more searching in the topbar) with status indicators. Blue dot means it needs permission, orange means it finished while you weren't looking. You can open agents in separate tabs now. Getting very close to Cursor. The visual cues are nice but easy to miss. So I stumbled upon Peon-Ping. It plays sound effects when your AI agent needs attention. Warcraft III peons, StarCra...meer

Excited to see this milestone become public: Kilo Code raised $8M in seed funding. Grateful to have been part of the journey from the early days, working alongside an incredible team. Moments like this remind me how fast things move when you operate at Kilo Speed, leaning fully into velocity, execution, and learning through shipping. There's something powerful about shipping early and often, even when it's imperfect, and letting real feedback shape what comes next. In the last month alone we have released parallel agents, one-click deploy, code review, autocomplete,...meer

Do you know why Kubernetes is a great fit for Startups? Or you just don't know how to get started? Find out why and how you can leverage k8s for your MVP or business in my latest blog.