Excited to publicly launch Firebender, the most powerful AI assistant for Android Studio. This is how we got here 🔥🧵

Claude Opus 4.6 is officially the best model for Android engineering! Try it out in Firebender now 🚀

Introducing Kotlin-bench V2, the first benchmark that evaluates agentic coding models for Android and Kotlin. 🚀 We took the SWEBench approach and applied it to our catered dataset of real-world Android & Kotlin issues. The results show: - Claude Opus 4.5 is the most

Just use Firebender! Best AI assistant for Android dev and already used by the Android teams at Square, Zillow, DoorDash, Instacart, OpenAI, Tinder and more

Excited to announce our partnership with @Underdog. Working with their engineering team has been a blast, and together we pioneered custom coding agents, subagents, and commands. Read more about their story at https://t.co/FX9HL6H8On

Firebender will use your phone to test its code directly without engineer intervention. You can see what the agent did via screen recording or events list

GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.1 Codex are now available in Firebender! These new models feel faster, overthink less, and are more direct when solving tasks. Try it out today and let us know what you think!

Firebender now QAs your Android app for you 🚀 Here it’s running through the login flow and finding all the edge cases, even testing rotation to make sure the UI holds up. These kinds of feedback loops make AI significantly more effective for mobile development. Try it

We're thrilled to share Modal Notebooks: a new, powerful cloud-hosted GPU notebook. It has modern real-time collaborative editing and is backed by our AI infrastructure — swap GPUs in seconds. Modal Notebooks are generally available, and you can start using them now. 🧵

My favorite part of Firebender background agents is the UX. Each agent lives in its own tab with its own git worktree, like Chrome for coding. Switching between agents feels light and intuitive. The tab title even updates with an icon so I can instantly see whether an agent is

If you're sleeping on Firebender, please tell me why. We are unquestionably the best..

Android devs! This is how 3 people beat Cursor, Windsurf, Devin, and everyone else. My cofounder shares how we built the best AI coding assistant for Android and landed contracts with Zillow, OpenAI, Tinder, Instacart, Toast + more. 🎙️👉

Is Anthropic working on an IDE?

YOOO a youtuber made a video on firebender https://t.co/Adu41PuRAd

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GPT-5 is now live in Firebender for Android Studio, free for a limited time 🚀 It’s definitely the best coding model I’ve ever used. Try it today and tell us what you think.

We built a system that detects highly complex objects NO vision model can find—introducing tool use for vision. 🧵 Say you wanted to detect for the @ycombinator logo in this image. (▶️ see step-by-step thinking) Using our solution, it's able to detect the logo perfectly,

@kevo1ution Don't ban me 😁 you just made a very very good tool that I can't work without.

Firebender is rolling AI agent usage metrics!! For any android engineer that uses, see how many lines of code the agent wrote for you :)

edit Android Studio Preview directly in natural language wtff!! 🤯🤯🤯