Kiran (Random Labs)
| Kiran Illindala | |
| Occupation | Software entrepreneur |
|---|---|
| Known for | Co-founder of Random Labs |
Kiran Illindala, known professionally as Kiran, is a software entrepreneur and co-founder of Random Labs, a company building long-running autonomous coding agents. Random Labs participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch.[1]
Career
Kiran co-founded Random Labs alongside Mihir Chintawar. At Random Labs, Kiran serves as a founder focused on building code generation tools, while Chintawar serves as chief technology officer.[1]
Random Labs develops Slate, an open-source autonomous coding agent designed to work alongside software developers on complex, extended tasks. The company describes Slate as "a coding agent designed to work with you for long hours on hard problems." The product is classified within the developer tools, open source, artificial intelligence, and AI assistant sectors. Slate is distributed as a command-line interface tool installable via npm.[2]
A distinguishing feature of Slate is its approach to context management. The tool incorporates a built-in compaction algorithm that surfaces the most relevant information during a coding session, allowing it to remain focused on the task at hand without requiring manual context engineering from the user. Unlike some competing coding agents that feature an explicit "plan mode," Slate takes an implicit planning approach: when given a task, it first researches the problem and then presents its plan to the user through a conversational discussion about how to solve the task.[2]
Random Labs launched during the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch, describing itself as "an open source software agent that lives in your codebase." The company's product has been adopted by teams at companies including Gravity and Prava.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Random Labs – Y Combinator". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Random Labs". 'Random Labs}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.