Kevin Tang

Co-founder of Firebender

Kevin is the Co-founder of Firebender, the most powerful coding agent for Android Engineers. He loves building and tinkering, and has experience ranging from large scale distributed systems to creating mobile apps and games. In his free time, Kevin loves to play basketball and chess with his friends.

Firebender's AI Coding Agent - Reverse engineered

Firebender is an Android centric coding agent. This means there are quite a bit of custom approaches that we've had to take to make it actually useful for the many android engineers we serve today. Some of those tricks are relevant and give insight into how LLMs "think" about writing Android/Kotlin code. Join us for an in-depth look at the internal workings the Firebender coding assistant. This knowledge can help Android engineers form a good basis for how they can evaluate LLMs and better predict where these coding agents will be in the coming years. Separately, we'll show the limits of our coding agent and how we're planning on addressing these limits going forward. As an added bonus, we'll also talk about how we went about building Firebender, "Cursor for Android engineers", with just three people! https://firebender.com