Meta bought parallel agents, OpenAI bought diff review — coding bottleneck isn't writing code
feregri_no · x · 2026-11-06
feregrino notes that this week Meta bought a startup for running agents in parallel while OpenAI bought one for reviewing diffs — both labs know where the real bottleneck is, and it isn't writing code. Orchestration and verification, not generation, are the next battleground of AI coding.
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