NousResearch's Hermes Agent used 1,393 subagents over 19 hours to shrink a 1M-line codebase by 34.4%
NousResearch · x · 2026-09-17
NousResearch published a blog post detailing how their Hermes Agent cleaned up a million lines of Python. On September 2, Teknium handed the task to Hermes Agent, which spawned 1,393 subagents over nineteen hours and cut the codebase by 34.4% — saving nearly $2m in engineering hours. The retweet quips "hang it in the Louvre," showcasing a real-world multi-agent code refactoring run.
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