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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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Dynamically presenting MCP clients as tools to LLMs in Go

Learn how to transform any MCP server into OpenAI tools that your agent can call without hardcoding any details

Nov 6, 2025

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October 2025

Technical Deep Dive on Streaming AI Agent Desktop Sandboxes: When Gaming Protocols Meet Multi-User Access

When we started building sandboxes for AI agents at Helix, we wanted to give each agent their own desktop environments that we could stream…

Oct 30, 2025 • Luke Marsden and Chris Sterry

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