🏝️ prev: engineering @ Kilo Code, Raycast, HackerOne
Groningen, Netherlands
Joined April 2009
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Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
We rewrote an internal thing from Zig to JavaScript and it got faster and more reliable. The obvious conclusion is that language doesn’t matter. Rewriting does. You should be rewriting everything all the time.
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
i’m positive i could make better hiring decisions based on somebodies top 9 games than any leetcode interview
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
it’s 2028. you ask your agent to buy ingredients for soup. it notices carrots are 10¢ more expensive than usual. it reroutes agricultural shipments, floods the west coast carrot market and triggers a diplomatic incident with canada. your groceries arrive. total savings: 23¢.
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
Good value for money
We gave Grok Build 0.1 one prompt: build a webhook delivery service in TypeScript, Bun, and SQLite.
It planned it, built it, and shipped a working demo.
Total cost: $1.65.
Zero tool-calling failures.
Here's exactly what happened, file by file.
ALT Black presentation slide with neon yellow and white text announcing a “MODEL RELEASE.” Large headline reads: “Grok Build 0.1 planned and built a webhook delivery service.” Smaller gray text underneath lists “TypeScript / Bun / SQLite.” A large yellow “$1.65” dominates the slide with the caption “total. zero tool-calling failures.” A small yellow square logo appears in the bottom-right corner.
Last week, we finally found what was causing slow cold starts on app.kilo.ai. Feels good! Thanks to @vercel for helping us debug this issue 🙏
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
Speed run joining Kilo Code’s engineering team! We’re building the open-source AI coding platform and are currently generating 5T tokens/mo. We are looking for experienced engineers who can ship what takes an entire team at other companies. Apply by Monday to join me at focus week in Amsterdam starting October 27. Link in the comments. Please share with people who can get code done.
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
6 months ago I founded @kilocode to empower developers to pick the best model for the task at hand. We launched our application within a month and have since grown to become the best AI coding orchestration application. Over the last 5 months token usage has grown 1000x, from 4 billion to 4 trillion tokens a month! In September Grok Code Fast was responsible for 46% of those tokens despite only launching 4 days before the month started.
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
A month since the release of Grok Code and it’s STILL the most-used AI coding model out there
Grok Code stands alone as the #1 coding agent breaking record usage across OpenRouter and Kilo Code, with leading adoption no competitor can match
Grok Cade Fast 1 is the fastest, most capable AI Coding model and most heavily used
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
Grok Code usage has skyrocketed to 2T tokens in less than a month, while the runner-up barely hits 350B
Grok Code is still the only top player in AI Coding space on Kilo Code and nothing is even close...
The chart's red section is all Grok Code
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
And 100B more tokens ran through @Kilo_Code than the rest of the top 20 apps COMBINED. Let that sink in.
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
stay grounded, keep cooking
the ai hype cycle is wild, and we all feel some anxiety — every week there's some new model that's supposedly gonna change everything and everyone's scrambling to keep up
but here's the thing: the fundamentals don't change. good design is still good design. solving real human problems, finding the ideal systems, making the best tools are still what matters.
same with competition: know what they're building, but don't watch too closely. the anxiety comes from thinking you have to chase every trend or copy every feature or you'll get left behind.
most trends are just noise. most competitor moves are just reactions to other reactions.
focus on what's always been true: understand your systems and users, solve real problems, build quality stuff with care. stay grounded in your values and let the technology serve your vision, not the other way around.
the best builders aren't the ones following every ai paper on twitter or obsessing over what others ship. they're the ones using whatever tools help them build the best thing for people.
make your own best thing. everything else is distraction.
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
Top up today with any Fibonacci number, get the next number in the sequence as bonus credits for Kilo Code.
Examples:
Top up $5 → get $8 bonus (total: $13)
Top up $21 → get $34 bonus (total: $55)
Top up $89 → get $144 bonus (total: $233)
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
Here’s metaphor I’ve used many times in the past few months, which seem to resonate with many programmers:
Think of LLMs as prep cooks, not sous chefs.
(They can save me time by chopping onions, shaving potatoes and starting a sauce, but they can’t cook a great meal)
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
This resonated with me. When I'm in building mode, I wake up at 4a 7 days a week to get in at least 2 hours of coding.
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Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
The live hacking in Las Vegas is EPIC!
Scoreboard shows $243,950 and we are only getting going.
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
🎛️ Loved animating these isometric api illustrations by @danhollick for the new Raycast site.
They’re all SVG:s animated with CSS, here’s how it works (it’s dead simple) 👇
Remon Oldenbeuving retweeted
This year we'll make things even faster with @rustlang - come join us!
⚡ Write performant systems-level code
🤝 Integrate Rust with our other tech stacks
🤓 Hack every Friday
💰 Location-independent salary (€104,000 - €160,000)
🌍 Remote, UTC ± 3 hours
raycast.com/jobs/software-en…
