HelixML

Working with the Garage Door Up, Without a Door

Why every design doc we write goes straight to a public Git branch, and what we've learned by leaving the door off.

May 12 • Priya Samuel

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March 2026

I benchmarked two approaches to code indexing for Kodit (which powers Helix Code Intelligence). The smarter one lost.

Read the full Post on the Helix blog: https://helix.ml/blog/chunking-beats-slicing

Mar 17 • Phil Winder

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Why Benchmarking AI Code Tools Is Harder Than You Think

Standard AI benchmarks are not fit for purpose. Here's what you need to know.

Mar 5 • Phil Winder

What a control room for AI coding agents actually looks like

Most teams run one AI coding agent at a time on a developer’s laptop. Helix gives each agent its own GPU-accelerated desktop, then lets you orchestrate…

Mar 3 • Priya Samuel

February 2026

Porting a Code RAG system from Python to Go: What the AI got wrong

Why we rewrote Kodit from Python to Go, what broke along the way, and what the new version means for users and integrators.

Feb 26 • Phil Winder

How We Forked Zed and Added Remote Control for Agent Fleet Orchestration

Zed is a fast, GPU-accelerated code editor written in Rust.

Feb 25 • Chris Sterry

How We Made Docker Builds 193x Faster: From 45 Minutes to 14 Seconds

The Problem

Feb 24 • Chris Sterry and Luke Marsden

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GPU Virtualization Architecture for Multi-Desktop Containers

I thought we'd have this working by now...

Feb 16 • Luke Marsden

December 2025

Bringing AI to Where Your Enterprise Lives: Helix + Microsoft 365

How Helix integrates with SharePoint and Microsoft Teams to bring private GenAI directly into your existing workflows

Dec 30, 2025 • Priya Samuel

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We Mass-Deployed 15-Year-Old Screen Sharing Technology and It's Actually Better

Or: How JPEG Screenshots Defeated Our Beautiful H.264 WebCodecs Pipeline

Dec 18, 2025 • Luke Marsden

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We Killed WebRTC (And Nobody Noticed)

We replaced WebRTC with plain WebSockets for real-time GPU streaming and got lower latency, simpler infrastructure, and better reliability everywhere.

Dec 11, 2025 • Luke Marsden

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November 2025

Why I've Joined HelixML

Introducing our new Head of Engineering, Priya Samuel

Nov 13, 2025 • Priya Samuel

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