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And a new $1M Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize will be announced in coming days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96oTlQm0KBw&t=5405s

Ex-project lead here. The most incredible part is buried in a 7 hour long video. Last night they also unwrapped 140 columns of new text in the PHerc. Paris. 4 scroll: https://x.com/JanPaul123/status/2070304769273725278

Kilo Code CEO here. This is why open source is so important!!

Kilo Code CEO here. We’d like to welcome ex-Windsurf users by offering you $100 in credits. :D We'd love to show how through open source there is a better way (better community, more transparent pricing, won't mess with your or the product). https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/windsurf-is-over-switch-to-open-s...

At Kilo we're already seeing lots of people trying it out. It's looking very good so far. Gemini 2.5 Pro had been taking over from Claude 3.7 Sonnet, but it looks like there's a new king. The bigger question is how often it's worth the price.

Seeing the $ every time I do something, even if it's $0.50, can be a little stressful. We should have an option to hide it per-request and just show a progress bar for the current topup.

Yeah, my colleague just wrote about this exact problem of incentive misalignment with Cursor and Windsurf https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/why-cursors-flat-fee-pricing-will

The economist in me is says "just show the prices", though the psychologist in me says "that's hella stressful". ;)

I agree, this would be good to have soon, especially as good models keep getting smaller, and hardware keeps getting cheaper.

100% agreed on both points. Point 1 relates to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486526 as well. It's one of the biggest challenges, though maybe it'll automatically get better through models with bigger context windows (we can't assume that though)?

Thanks! That does look like a great tool.

At this point we plan to monetize enterprise features (LDAP login, things like that).

Still a small percentage! Let's get more of this happening.

Good point! In that sense we're similar to most AI coding agents in that the languages we do well are the languages the mainstream LLMs do well. We might zoom in and add really good support for particular languages though (not decided yet), in which case we'll def mention that front and center!

Have you found any LLMs or coding agents that work well with Haxe? It might be a bit too niche for us (again, not sure yet), but I'd be very curious to see what they do well!

In roughly the last 2 weeks, yes. It helped that everyone involved also activated their network, so we got a multiplicative effect. Can't speak to funding for now unfortunately.

Yeah, this is a great workflow! What's more, agents are particularly good at writing tests, since they're simpler and mostly linear, so they can even help with that part.

As to your point of automating retries, with my last prototype I played a lot with having agents do multiple parallel implementations, and then pick the first one that works, or lets you choose (or even have another agent choose).

Have you tried any tools that have this workflow down, or at least approach it?

Yes! This is high on our list. Context window compression is a big deal, and this is one of the main ways to do it, IMO.

Have you tried any tools that do this particularly well?

Totally agree!

We’ll take all the features people love in other products, and implement them in a coherent package as quickly as we can.

JP here! Would love to answer your questions!

We listed a bunch of ideas for larger improvements in the blog: Instant app; Up-to-date docs; Prompt/product-first workflows; Browser IDE; Local/on-prem models; Live collaboration; Parallel-agents; Code variants; Shared context; Open source sharing; MCP marketplace; Integrated CI; Monitoring/production agents; Security agents; Sketching..

What would you like us to build?

And yet few do it!

Our backers have no interest in fake metrics. ;) It's a good way to quickly get feedback, which is key to our strategy. Totally fine to keep using Roo Code (or Cline) of course!

You're too kind!! The speedrun ethos has already been super fun with this team. :)

I hope that we'll also be able to bring enough skills, strategy, and taste to the space. Time will tell, but we're giving it our best shot!

Completely agree. It's useful not just for targeting one specific language, but all the other APIs that we have, and things like RAG to search for importable modules on the platform. Duplicating all that across many platforms is a lot of work!

Yes exactly. It generates code for Val Town, which hosts Typescript backends.

Post author here! Happy to answer any questions.

Anything you would like to share? Those hundreds of sheets would be useful for the community, and would be eligible for a $2000 open source prize.

Or if you'd like to tell us what you did in private, we'd appreciate that too. team [at] scrollprize [dot] org.

Haha, indeed!

Good point, we'll look into it!

Right?! Who knows what could be waiting in a library owned by leaders of the Roman Empire

More data!!