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Firebender
Company blog · firebender.com/blogaiprogramming
Firebender is the company blog at firebender.com, writing about ai and programming. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Llama 4 performance on Kotlin/Android coding tasks”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, which cites the site's Kotlin benchmark leaderboard as evidence that SWE-bench results may be gamed, in a thread about Codex. It does not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Most Powerful Coding Agent for Android Studio
Most-linked posts?
- Llama 4 performance on Kotlin/Android coding tasks2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-09
- Show HN: Gemini 2.5 is the best model for Kotlin and Android dev2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-04
What Hacker News says?
I can be completely off base, but it feels to me like benchmaxxing is going on with swe-bench. Look at the results from multi swe bench - https://multi-swe-bench.github.io/#/ swe polybench - https://amazon-science.github.io/SWE-PolyBench/ Kotlin bench - https://firebender.com/leaderboard
Comment linking /leaderboard
on “A Research Preview of Codex”Submitted Show HN: Firebender – A Dead Simple Coding Assistant in Android Studio as a story · 6 points
HN discussionyou can try https://firebender.com . Its specifically designed for android studio, but still works well for intellij. I use it every day to develop the plugin itself.
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on “Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative”Submitted Respect Term=Agent Please as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe're targeting android studio - https://firebender.com . I imagine its because Java Swing is actually extremely painful to work with and learn. Most developers interested in AI and the experience overlap with Sun Microsystem's Java Swing is not very large.
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on “Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative”Submitted Dear Android Engineers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionthis 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
Comment linking /privacy
on “Show HN: Firebender, a simple coding agent for Android Engineers”Submitted Llama 4 performance on Kotlin/Android coding tasks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Gemini 2.5 is the best model for Kotlin and Android dev as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firebender: Android AI Coder as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firebender, powerful coding agent in IntelliJ in 70 seconds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-5 at top of Kotlin bench as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude Opus 4 worse than Sonnet on Kotlin Bench as a story · 1 points
HN discussion