https://kiln.tech/blog Exploring new and fun AI techniques. Kiln has added agent skills support! Here's what skills are, why progressive disclosure works, and how to use them in your agents. https://kiln.tech/blog/introducing_agent_skills/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kiln will now automatically find the ideal prompt for your task, guided by your own evals. Performance gains that blow away manual optimization, and even beat fine-tuning. https://kiln.tech/blog/introducing_kiln_prompt_optimizer/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most AI teams think they have a testing problem. But the real issue is they aren't defining what "good" actually means. Learn how specs can transform your AI development workflow. https://kiln.tech/blog/requirements_layer_your_ai_system_is_missing/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Introducing Kiln Specs — a guided copilot that helps you build accurate evals, synthetic data, and judge prompts in minutes instead of hours. https://kiln.tech/blog/kiln_specs_kiln_copilot_and_tool_fine_tuning/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Great RAG comes from a tight iteration loop. Learn how to systematically improve each layer of your RAG system using Kiln and LanceDB. https://kiln.tech/blog/rag_isnt_one_size_fits_all_heres_how_to_tune_it_for_your_use_case/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Our new v0.23.0 app release includes powerful new features for RAG, evals, and more! https://kiln.tech/blog/rag_evals_reranking_sematic_clustering_tool_evals/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Kiln now supports building agentic systems in as little as 5 minutes. Also new is Local RAG: build RAG systems without any third party services. https://kiln.tech/blog/kiln_agent_builder_and_local_rag/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Introducing our biggest release ever! Build state-of-the-art RAG systems in minutes, with drag-and-drop! https://kiln.tech/blog/kiln_adds_search_tools_document_library_and_rag/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Kiln v0.20.1 adds tool calling, MCP support, and more! https://kiln.tech/blog/kiln_adds_tool_calling_and_mcp/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT A video walk through of Kiln project from start to finish. The project we build is open source and available on GitHub. https://kiln.tech/blog/end_to_end_kiln_project_demo/ Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT How thousands of LLM test cases make Kiln AI easier to use. https://kiln.tech/blog/i_wrote_2000_llm_test_cases_so_you_dont_have_to/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Our new release is our biggest ever! Read about how we improved evals, synthetic data, and a whole new concept: Kiln Issues. https://kiln.tech/blog/release_0.18.1_evals_v2_synthetic_data_v2_kiln_issue_kimi_k2/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Evaluating AI products is notoriously difficult. In this article we walk through how to make it approachable, maintainable, and iterative using many small evals instead of one large eval. https://kiln.tech/blog/you_need_many_small_evals_for_ai_products/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT A hands-on experiment fine-tuning Gemma 3 27B using synthetic data from Sonnet 4, achieving performance that rivals GPT-4o on specific tasks while being smaller and cheaper to run. https://kiln.tech/blog/gemma3_ablations_tutorial/ Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Most teams are curious about fine-tuning and how it might help their AI products, but they don't know what to expect from the process, how to measure success, or where to start. https://kiln.tech/blog/why_fine_tune_LLM_models_and_how_to_get_started/ Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Qwen 3, Gemma 3, Evals Guides, and Fine Tuning Updates! https://kiln.tech/blog/v0.16_qwen_3_gemma_3_evals_and_fine_tuning_updates/ Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Learn how to fine-tune LLMs without coding in under 20 minutes. Turn existing prompts into custom models that are faster, cheaper, and often better than prompting larger models. https://kiln.tech/blog/fine_tuning_for_prompt_engineers/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Vertex, Azure, QwQ, Gemma, Hugging Face, W&B, Anthropic, Import CSV, and More! https://kiln.tech/blog/release_0.13.1_vertex_gemini_anthropic_azure_qwq_gemma_and_more/ Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Powerful Evaluation Toolkit & Support for Distilling Sonnet 3.7 Thinking https://kiln.tech/blog/release_0.12.1/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Easily create your own LLM evals in minutes. Use powerful evaluation methods like LLM-as-Judge and G-eval from Kiln's UI without coding. https://kiln.tech/blog/create_llm_evals_llm_as_judge/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT A new release, faster synthetic data, bug fixes, and Kiln news. https://kiln.tech/blog/release_0.11.1/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT That was fast. Thank you for the support! https://kiln.tech/blog/kiln_hits_1000_github_stars/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Create your own reasoning model in under 30 minutes with Kiln AI. https://kiln.tech/blog/fine_tune_distill_deepseek_r1_into_llama/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Vector Institute, a research lab founded by Geoff Hinton, has started using Kiln for their AI research. https://kiln.tech/blog/kiln_featured_by_vector_insitute/ Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT A step-by-step guide to easily fine-tune from scratch with Kiln. No coding required. https://kiln.tech/blog/guide_fine_tune_9_llm_models_in_18_minutes/ Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT