NousResearch ran 1,393 subagents for 19 hours to clean 1M lines of Python, cutting codebase 34.4% and saving ~$2M
max_paperclips · x · 2026-09-17
NousResearch published a blog post detailing a large-scale agent run: on September 2 they tasked Hermes Agent with cleaning up about a million lines of Python. Using 1,393 subagents over 19 hours, the agent shrank the codebase by 34.4%, saving roughly $2M in engineering hours.
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