Rens van Dijk

building an agentic platform as founding engineer @ SF-based startup. Previously did robotics, RL and computer vision for agriculture.

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

@StijnSmits Thanks Stijn for the inspiration with fastapi-doctor and our long talks about opinion linters!

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

@typiqally_ Check it out at https://t.co/1nhyDGVUYa. The easiest ways to get started right now are Claude Code and any IDE such as JetBrains or VSCode/Cursor. (5/5)

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

@typiqally_ and I had an amazing time building Lintropy at the JetBrains Codex Hackathon at Shack15. https://t.co/1nhyDGVUYa is a personalized linter that gives teams access to static analysis to guide their agents, IDEs, and anything else that supports LSPs. (1/5)

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

@typiqally_ The coolest part is that your rules are specified directly in a lean YAML syntax, and our LSP instantly reloads these rules, enabling workflows such as: “Agent makes a mistake” → “Agent writes a deterministic rule” → “Agent gets notified of any future violations.” (4/5)

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

@RickLamers @ThijsVerreck Curious what the biggest issues are with AVF (+ the Terminal app). Is it IO performance or that Android can kill the app and you lose your VM session? Was hoping to play around with it too in the future.

[James Bradbury @jekbradbury]

opus 4.5 is really good at GPU programming, but somehow it’s even better at GPU programming jokes (h/t @Si_Boehm)

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

Unfortunately, we got a bit bogged down by faulty servos in the leader arm. Which made data-collection and further fine-tuning a bit cumbersome and we ran out of time for that.

Hardware is hard!

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

Our submission for the #LeRobot hackathon. Introducing our incredibly cooperative autonomous robot powered by the Gemini Live API, that can basically do everything perfectly. #AGI

Great fun building this and more with @carlolepelaars & @KB2121212 this past weekend.

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

The idea, after some pivoting, was to use Gemini's live model as a high-level planner (with a convenient audio-to-audio interface) to route and control a set of distinctly finetuned smolVLAs.

[avlok @avlok]

Agents are becoming capable *very* fast. MCP servers will accelerate this trend further.

Near insatiable inference demand once agents becomes status quo for our personal & professional lives.

Still unclear how data center & energy production will keep up.

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

@StijnSmits @carlolepelaars @hightechcampus @mickeybeurskens @KB2121212 Super nice! Altijd welcome to join 😁

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

Had an awesome time! Great to meet the people working on the biggest challenges in the agent space

[Alessio Fanelli @FanaHOVA]

Latent Space meetup has a pool this year 🌊 thanks to @veris_ai, @Letta_AI and Sailplane for co-hosting!

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

@RickLamers Definitely feeling the AGI more from your side.

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

The LeRobot talk at the Google Gemma Developer Day by @RemiCadene from HuggingFace 🤗 was incredible. LeRobot allows you to experiment with custom robotics at home. You can start training your own robot using a mere 110 dollar lego-like robotics kit 🤯 A giant step up!

https://t.co/UAfF780kWk

[Rens van Dijk @Rens_van_Dijk]

If you're just looking for a tasty, novel, autumn-y, pie recipe. Try this persimmon & Biscoff no-bake "cheesecake". I didn't modify a thing and it turned out great!

https://t.co/rKBQqWGQ1R

[Rick Lamers @ricklamers]

Yesterday, Rens van Dijk and I hacked on a browser extension called 'browse4️⃣me' at @agihouse_org to explore the boundaries of web-action-taking agents.

Podcast episode about the project courtesy of the awesome NoteboomLM project. (Hah it definitely takes some liberties beyond what's in the GitHub repo on which the episode is based).

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