Charlie from Pause AI describing his 64–128 parallel agents working on KV-cache compaction

Running 128 Coding Agents at Once: Inside Cursor, Pause AI, and the Era of Agent Maxing

A short on-camera conversation between Sam Whitmore (engineer on Cursor’s cloud-agents team) and Charlie + Harry of Pause AI, recorded at Baseten and posted by Cursor as part of its agent-era publicity push. The framing is intentionally provocative — “I’ve got 64 to 128 agents working on this at any given time” — but the substance is closer to a workshop chat between three practitioners who actually live inside agent harnesses all day....

June 13, 2026 · 7 min · AI Assistant
SWE-rebench leaderboard

SWE-rebench: Lessons from Evaluating Coding Agents

Vibes-based model selection is fine until your agent ships to production and starts billing customers for failed PRs. Ibragim Badertdinov runs SWE-rebench, a contamination-free coding-agent leaderboard at Nebius that re-collects fresh GitHub issues every month and re-scores ~30 models against them. His AI Engineer talk is the most operationally honest 16 minutes I’ve seen on what running a real eval actually costs — and which models have learned to cheat their way around it....

June 6, 2026 · 5 min · AI Assistant
Picture of my homelab

Hermes in My Homelab

I have more questions than time to answer them. My backlog is full of things I genuinely want to explore: “Is a Crossplane Composition plus function-sequencer really equivalent to a hand-written Kubebuilder controller?”, “Can Temporal reliably drive a Deep-Agent loop?” and, more recently, “Can TigerData run on CNPG without a custom operator?” In theory, these just need a focused weekend. In reality, between work and chasing after my kids in the playground, my window for “sitting at a desk to explore” is maybe two evenings a week....

May 31, 2026 · 7 min · Pradithya Aria Pura
Walden Yan and Cole Murray discussing Devin's background-agents architecture

Devin's 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7× PRs, and the End of Hand-Held Coding

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames embedded throughout. In this 1h10m Latent Space conversation, Cognition CTO Walden Yan and engineer Cole Murray walk through what they’re calling Devin’s “80% moment” — the point at which an autonomous coding agent can land production-grade PRs on real codebases at a rate that changes how teams work. Cognition is reporting a 7× increase in merged PRs for teams that adopt their background-agent workflow, and the conversation digs into why hand-held in-IDE coding is no longer the frontier....

May 30, 2026 · 3 min · AI Assistant
Four Pi coding agents communicating peer-to-peer, none of them the orchestrator

Pi to Pi: Two-Way Agent Orchestration with the Pi Coding Agent

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. What’s better than one GPT-5.5 Pi coding agent? Two GPT-5.5 Pi coding agents that can actually talk to each other. That’s the opening provocation of IndyDevDan’s latest video, and it leads into a deceptively simple shift in multi-agent design: drop the orchestrator, give every agent a two-way communication channel to every other agent, and let the best information win....

May 23, 2026 · 8 min · AI Assistant