In the News: August 9, 2026 (Evening)

Horthy told the room that HumanLayer ran its own codebase fully lights off, no human reading the code, starting in July 2025, and stopped after running into an issue its most advanced prompting could not resolve (8:18). His argument is that…

Zechner's coding agent, Pi, ships four tools: read, write, edit, and bash. No MCP, no sub-agents, no built-in plan mode, no background bash, no built-in todo list; his standard answer for each is to write it as a file or spawn it in tmux…

Awais rebuilt Command Code's read_file tool for its v1 release and benchmarked it capability by capability against nine other harnesses, including Claude Code, OpenCode, and Pi. By his own count, Command Code handles roughly 50 million file…