Nous Research: Hermes Agent used 1,393 subagents in 19 hours to cut 1M-line codebase by 34.4%
Teknium · x · 2026-09-16
Nous Research published a blog post on a large-scale autonomous coding run: on Sept 2, Teknium tasked the Hermes Agent with cleaning up a million lines of Python. The agent spun up 1,393 subagents over 19 hours, shrinking the codebase by 34.4% and saving nearly $2m in engineering hours.
Related event: Nous Used Hermes Agent to Refactor a Million Lines of Code in 19 Hours(2 posts)→
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