Teknium runs Hermes Agent for 15 hours with recursive subagents, shedding 375,000 lines of code
Teknium · x · 2026-09-03
Teknium stress-tested Hermes Agent by giving it a single /goal: clean up its own repo. It ran for 15 hours and simplified, unified, optimized, or removed enough code to shed 375,000 lines.
- Waves of 120 subagents (3x sets of 15) ran in parallel for nearly the whole duration, with subagents spawning their own subagents recursively.
- The entire workload ran on a single desktop machine, which he calls an epic test of the limits of the latest model generation and the agent harness. More details promised soon.
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