Ara Khan
Bio
Ara Khan has spent the last few years of his life working on making coding agents beautiful and artistic. Currently he is the founding AI Engineer at Cline. In the past, he has worked at Sourcegraph and Shopify doing everything ranging from Backend Dev, Devrel, Infra and Coding agents.
Session (1)
Ara Khan works on agent quality at Cline and speaks candidly about the unglamorous engineering reality of building a top coding agent: how to run evals, hill-climb harness scores (e.g. moving Cline's Terminal Bench score from 47% to 57%), and avoid shipping "slop." His sessions are hands-on, opinionated, and grounded in production work on the open-source Cline coding agent.
Recent talks (3)
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@arafatkatzeRecent writing (1)
- A practical guide to hill climbing · blog · Feb 2026
Public activity researched automatically · as of Jun 2026