Researchers build Software World, a GitHub-like platform run by collaborative AI agents
dan_fried · x · 2026-09-03
Shannon Shen's team shared early research on "Software World" — a "GitHub" run by agents. Agents are deployed across a Python package dependency chain, each tasked with collaborating with the others and optimizing the package it owns. Jenny Liang joined the effort to explore a future where all software is written by a society of collaborative agents; results to come.
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