
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
From GitLab to Kilo Code (Interview)
January 7 · 1 hr 17 min · 74.4 MB
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We’re joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer. That started a journey he’s been on ever since… a journey that he shares with us in great detail. Along the way, Sid continued founding companies including Kilo Code, an all-in-one agentic engineering platform, which he also tells us all about.
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Featuring:
- Sid Sijbrandij – Website, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- 0:00Welcome to The Changelog
- 0:56Sponsor: Depot
- 3:19Start the show!
- 4:14Sid's story
- 6:23A health crisis
- 9:52Doing it in parallel
- 13:09Why go to China
- 14:22Sid's health today
- 15:20The useful medicines
- 19:48The type of cancer
- 26:40What's next?
- 29:58Sponsor: Tiger Data
- 32:27Working on Kilo
- 35:29Open core Kilo
- 36:09Approaching models
- 39:42The all-in-one challenge
- 42:43More parallels
- 44:42Sounds pricey
- 47:38Future budgets
- 49:12The ultimate polymath
- 56:12Sponsor: Notion
- 59:02Competing with Cursor
- 1:03:45Kilo's UX
- 1:05:08Claude Web has repos
- 1:08:24Sid the polymath?
- 1:08:54The developer's future
- 1:12:37Hiring?
- 1:14:34Wrapping up
- 1:15:55Closing thoughts