# About Kilby

Kilby is an AI engineer for embedded teams. Assign a ticket like you would to a colleague: a bug, a feature, a driver. Kilby writes the code and tests it on your hardware. A human engineer reviews it before you get the pull request.

## What Kilby does

Kilby works where your team already works, on the ticket, and tests on real hardware instead of stopping at the code.

- Developer: Takes tickets, small to large: bugs, features, drivers and CRA reports. Every change is tested on your board.
- Support engineer: Reproduces the report on the bench and measures what happens on the board.
- Test engineer: Every night Kilby flashes the day's work and runs the regression tests on hardware.
- Spec keeper: Reads your firmware, tickets and documents, and keeps one spec next to the code. Every change updates it.

## How humans stay in charge

- If something is unclear, Kilby asks on the ticket and waits for an answer.
- An engineer sets the limit on every bench output. A request past the limit is refused, not quietly capped.
- A human engineer reviews everything before it reaches you.
- Your team keeps priorities, architecture and the merge button.

## Where the name comes from

Kilby is named after Jack Kilby. In 1958, at Texas Instruments, he built the first integrated circuit. The proof was a sine wave on an oscilloscope, which is why our Kilby's face is two traces on a scope screen.

## Where Kilby stands today

Kilby is built in Belgium and open through a waitlist. [Join the waitlist](/#waitlist) to talk about a pilot, or mail [hi@kilby.be](mailto:hi@kilby.be).