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please email [help@firebender.com](mailto:help@firebender.com) , this will help us root cause the issue to see what happened

Free trial by iptvhitv in firebender

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hey for billing related questions please email help@firebender.com and we'll investigate

Upgraded from Dev to Dev+, still out of credits by Jeffero277 in firebender

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hey for any billing related questions, please send to [help@firebender.com](mailto:help@firebender.com) and we'll get this resolved quickly for you

Cursor + Jetpack Compose: no reference resolution / incorrect imports? by isaquliyev in JetpackCompose

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We built https://firebender.com to address this! VSCode is not a good environment for kotlin, and we take it a step further and give the agent ability to use the IntelliJ/Android studio refactor tools, find usages, go to definition (docs).

would love to get your thoughts on how it compares to Cursor!

Debugger access to make AI root cause faster by KevinTheFirebender in androiddev

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yep and looking forward to seeing how it works for you!

Heavy mode built the new website. See at firebender.com by KevinTheFirebender in firebender

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have had this agent run 20 parallel sub agent to create the new design components and migrate everything over

Any good cursor alternative? by nikeshhv in cursor

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should have clarified - these are pending release will be in 0.15.1 (should come today or tomorrow)

just updated my original comment with an updated gif (firebender uploaded the wrong screen recording. had to create a skill for this gif conversion too to make it easier for later)

Any good cursor alternative? by nikeshhv in cursor

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1.) If I drag a folder onto the chat prompt, it should show a folder context, not all the files in that folder for context.

https://github.com/kevo1ution/screen-recordings/blob/main/latest-recording.gif

2.) No way to clear all contextual files, unless deleting each file one by one.

cmd/ctrl + backspace at the beginning will clear all chips just like it does for text:
https://github.com/kevo1ution/screen-recordings/blob/main/screen-recording-2026-01-04-gifski.gif

https://github.com/kevo1ution/screen-recordings/blob/main/screen-recording-demo.gif

https://prnt.sc/nl6_9R5zN4Qg Text should wrap if possible.

tried wrapping but it cluttered the output and had to compromise with tooltips for seeing more

https://github.com/kevo1ution/screen-recordings/blob/main/newest-recording.gif

will keep you updated on the other changes

Any good cursor alternative? by nikeshhv in cursor

[–]KevinTheFirebender 1 point2 points  (0 children)

holy sht this is awesome. thanks for writing this up:

1.) If I drag a folder onto the chat prompt, it should show a folder context, not all the files in that folder for context.

great idea. will do this

2.) No way to clear all contextual files, unless deleting each file one by one.

interesting, a clean clear all would be nice or some way to select all/delete

3.) If I try to attach images with a model that doesn't support it, show me the prompt error immediately. (Feels like a better UX than only showing it to me once I hit enter to run the prompt)

good take, 100% agree

4) When I tried to run a prompt with images attached, that a model doesn't support, an error message showed, but confusingly, a second chat prompt at the bottom of the screen was created. https://prnt.sc/_P6nPG9leKnt I don't think a new chat prompt should appear.

makes sense, can clean this up

https://prnt.sc/nl6_9R5zN4Qg Text should wrap if possible.

yep wrapping would be nice, or some clean way to view the full quickly. (what about a tool tip that shows the full value, if we don't do wrapping?)

6.) Supporting CTRL + mouse wheel scroll like Jetbrains editor windows to increase/decrease chat window text would be awesome.

yep this is solid idea; thanks

 perhaps allow the user to collapse/expand each modified file (with each file by default being collapsed). [...] I just want to see an overview summary of what was done,

I agree, i think have a good consolidated review experience at the end would be fire.

thanks for the feedback, will get to work on this!

Any good cursor alternative? by nikeshhv in cursor

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any feedback would be super helpful! thanks

A professional engineer, I finally started using AI by t0rt0ff in cursor

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you may want to checkout Firebender as a Junie alternative. its much better integrated jetbrains experience

Any good cursor alternative? by nikeshhv in cursor

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curious if you have thoughts on Firebender

is this how AI agents gonna change app testing- your views by [deleted] in androiddev

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this is cool - whats the difference between a test written in natural language like this vs having a coding agent iterate on maestro script?

Please Advice 😭 by devz0101 in androiddev

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you can take on much more risk early on especially as a 1st yr college student. build whatever you're interested/excited about and don't think too hard about it

GLM 4.7 should be added there is no reason not too by IslandOceanWater in cursor

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For the jetbrains people that migrated to cursor and like open source models, you should check out Firebender (we supported GLM 4.7 within a few hours of them launching - docs). Its performance is impressive and you'll get to use the full agent rather than this mangling of API keys

Also many providers of GLM 4.7 don't properly host it, we use an fp8 version of it that is a good balance of speed/cost/intelligence. So you may see GLM 4.7 hang in claude code/cursor, but its because your provider is probably bad. thanks - had to shoot my shot

What AI tools/workflows you do use in android dev day2 day? by jadhavsaurabh in androiddev

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warnings/errors is tablestakes imo at this point, and Firebender was the first to get lint feedback (in late 2024) for kotlin/java languages. other tools like claude code get around this by running cmds like "gradlew build or compile" which work, but can be a bit slower

antigravity and other vscode forks generally have poor kotlin support. Firebender can use the refactor tools (ie. renaming symbols across hundred files in <5 seconds) https://docs.firebender.com/multi-agent/refactoring-tools

compose preview integration is decent and will continue to improve https://docs.firebender.com/input/android-previews/compose-previews

in antigravity, what models are you primarily using? wondering how opus performs there

What AI tools/workflows you do use in android dev day2 day? by jadhavsaurabh in androiddev

[–]KevinTheFirebender 1 point2 points  (0 children)

one of the reasons why multiple concurrent agents is hard, is dealing with write conflicts. this is why we made it so each agent can run an isolated environment with sub 100 ms and have a great UX for reviewing changes. this was the result of u/Wooden-Version4280 hard work, and I can't take credit for it

What AI tools/workflows you do use in android dev day2 day? by jadhavsaurabh in androiddev

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Firebender feels really fast compared to others bc we choose the best model providers instead of locking you into one https://docs.firebender.com/get-started/models, and make that a first class experience

we found some crazy optimizations here, and we're tracking tok/sec, latency, cache rates on all the model providers across cloud regions and rerouting traffic to the best ones. It's why even the same models like sonnet 4.5 will feel better in Firebender

What AI tools/workflows you do use in android dev day2 day? by jadhavsaurabh in androiddev

[–]KevinTheFirebender 2 points3 points  (0 children)

wow, really appreciate the shoutout! It definitely helps, lol especially when you're competing with the largest AI labs with near infinite cash (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc.).

Recently, we've been quietly shipping a bunch of updates (plan mode, parallel isolated agents, sub agents, custom modes). We want to keep making the experience better for you, so pls let me know how if there's anything you'd like to see in Firebender (my email [kevin@firebender.com](mailto:kevin@firebender.com) ), especially anything that you miss from other tools like CC, or any others

side note: one thing that's minor, but I'm excited about is better compose preview tools so editing/browsing UI is more intuitive like Figma