Browser Use launched jev, a browser-agent tool. Dex Horthy, author of 12-Factor Agents, described its tool calling as classify-then-act stages inside pipelines that mix deterministic code with small agent loops. The post was about two hours old and had roughly 496 likes at the only reading, so there is no measured trend yet.
In the News: September 17, 2026
Nous Research reports a 1,393-subagent refactor, while Steve Yegge argues that persistent agent roles reduce repeated trust and context costs.
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Nous Research refactors its own coding agent with 1,393 subagents
On September 2, Teknium set Hermes Agent, Nous Research's open source coding agent, on a standing cleanup goal for the project's own codebase, more than a million lines of non-test Python. The main run took about nineteen active hours,…
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Steve Yegge: a "seat" is trust an agent doesn't have to re-derive every session
Yegge's Wheelhouse orchestrator, the successor to his earlier Gas Town system, ran about 25 Claude Fable instances alongside 25 Opus and Sol instances at peak in August. Fuel costs kept climbing: he went from adding a Claude Max account…
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