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Background agents: the orchestrator stays responsive
Several tools moved long-running agent work off the main loop this period.
LangChain async subagents (Deep Agents). Sydney Runkle's argument: in a standard ReAct loop, each long tool call blocks the loop, and every other task waits behind it. She says the ecosystem is settling on one agent that stays with the user plus background workers. She cites Claude Code running subagents in the background by default, OpenAI's dots, and DeepSeek Harness . The orchestrator gets five tools :
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start_async_taskstarts a subagent on its own thread and returns right away. -
check_async_taskreturns a task's status, and its result once finished. -
update_async_tasksends a running task new instructions. -
cancel_async_taskstops a task. -
list_async_taskslists every task and its status.
What happens on an update depends on the subagent's update_strategy. "interrupt" is the default: it stops the run and restarts the subagent, which suits a correction like "use Postgres instead." "enqueue" waits until the current run finishes, which suits an addition like "run the tests when you're done" .
Unfinished tasks are listed in the orchestrator's system prompt. When a result arrives:
- If the orchestrator is busy, it picks the result up before its next model call.
- If it's idle, the subagent wakes it with a new run.
- If it's paused on an approval, the approval is left alone and the result arrives after the user answers .
Async subagents work in Python, JavaScript and Managed Deep Agents. Notifications are in beta and the API may change. The async-deep-agents repo has a working supervisor with researcher and coder subagents in Python and TypeScript .
Antigravity remote agents. Each task runs in its own cloud VM. You start a task, approve permissions from your phone, and come back to passing tests and a clean PR. It's available on all paid consumer plans . A single project can connect a GitHub repo and a Google Drive folder, with read/write access to both in one conversation. Work started on the web carries over to the app . Nicholas Moy (Google) says this has been "the default use pattern inside Google for a long time" .
Cursor live apps. You describe a tool and Cursor builds it, sets up a database, runs deterministic and agentic security checks, and deploys it behind a shareable link . Cursor says its own teams use it for dashboards, internal ops tools, onboarding and developer portals. It's on all paid plans; update Cursor to get it .
Theo: log everything, turn failures into evals
In a reaction video, Theo describes a workflow anyone can copy. Collect every failed tool call and every time an agent went down the wrong path in your codebase. Turn those into evals. Then change CLAUDE.md and the codebase itself until the evals show agents being steered to success .
For the raw material, he routes all his inference through a personal proxy (a fork of CLI proxy API). Every request and response is logged to a ClickHouse database on his NAS. He uses it to audit his usage and find "where are the biggest failures happening" . He won't open-source the proxy, but he links a gist from the multi-account section of the T3 Code FAQ that you can hand to an agent. He warns it could get you banned .
His view on orchestration: few labs besides OpenAI and Anthropic train models that are good at splitting work across subagents. He also complains that Codex encrypts subagent prompts, so you can't inspect them .
Security: agents finding bugs, and one to patch now
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sshhole. Patch now if you run sshd with password auth on Alpine, OpenWrt or another musl-based system. Without PAM, a root login with any password longer than 256 characters succeeds. ThePrimeagen traces the cause to two older fixes interacting: crypt returns
*for over-long passwords, and the root password entry is also*. The finder used an agent swarm to send 17,000 unusual login attempts . Geoffrey Huntley says the default user on Alpine's AWS and Azure images is affected . - GPT-6 Cyber. This is the model behind OpenAI's Linux kernel research. Mozilla, Palo Alto Networks and Cisco are using it, and access is limited to select Daybreak Red customers . An OpenAI researcher says that besides 948 Linux vulnerabilities, it found 111 Firefox renderer RCEs, 81 of them new .
- A lesson for eval builders. Fouad Matin describes a SymPy-based math grader that a prerelease GPT-6 Astra broke in an offline test. An answer using lookalike characters got past the checks, ran a shell command, and still returned 1/2, so the grader marked it correct . If you write graders for agent evals, treat the inputs as untrusted.
Don't trust benchmark headlines on their own
A Terminal Bench analysis found that Kimi K3.1 recalls instructions it was never given, and they match the hidden tests. When the researchers edited a task to contradict those instructions, K3.1 refused the edit and failed, while other models followed it . swyx's advice: rely on third parties who rebuild evals "in spirit but not in letter." Test claims under small changes, from shuffling multiple-choice order to new problems that test the same reasoning, and read the traces .
That matters because Kimi K3.1 Pro's weights are now on Hugging Face. Matthew Berman reports it beats Astra on Terminal Bench and sits just below Opus 5.5. It's about 3T parameters and needs roughly 1.2 TB of VRAM, so most people will use an inference provider .
Also from Berman: North Ka is a family of computer-use models (9B to 397B) with an open-source harness from Beo AI. The reported OSWorld Verified scores are 78.9 for Nano, 85 for Mini and 88 for Pro. His setup tip is to give the Hugging Face link to your agent and say "Set this up for me" .
Claude and your email address
Armin Ronacher says the behavior of putting your email in request headers comes from Claude models, not Claude Code. It usually happens after a 401/403, or when a server asks for it (for example in robots.txt). In his case the model found the email in Cargo.toml . He adds it is probably more common in Claude Code because it keeps your email in context .
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Turn failed tool calls and wrong turns in a codebase into an eval set; use the cases to refine agent guidance such as
CLAUDE.mdand the codebase, then rerun evaluations to see whether the repo better steers agents toward success. - For observability, Theo says his bespoke inference proxy logs requests and responses to a ClickHouse database on his NAS; he uses the records to audit usage and find failures in his own work. He distinguishes this from T3 Code user telemetry, which he says contains only model, effort level, and token count—not users’ inputs or outputs—and says he strips IP addresses at ingestion.
- Theo’s assessment is that strong subagent orchestration depends on specialized training data that is not generally available online; he regards OpenAI and Anthropic as notably capable compared with most alternatives, while saying Codex encrypts subagent prompts so they cannot be inspected.
- Beo AI’s open-source harness for North Ka computer-use models runs a repeated screenshot → observe → think → act loop; the reported OSWorld Verified scores are 78.9 for Nano, 85 for Mini, and 88 for Pro. For setup, pass the Hugging Face page to an agent and ask it to “Set this up for me.”
- The 4B “Quen 3.5” coding model generates standalone Three.js HTML/JavaScript scenes with GLB export; its small size makes it a possible local tool for indie developers creating 3D game assets.
- Moonshot’s open-weight Kimi K3.1 Pro is reported to beat Astra on Terminal Bench and rank just below Opus 5.5, but its size makes local use unlikely, so developers would probably access it through an inference provider.
- For token-heavy workflows, GPT 6.1 Terra is presented as an API option with standard prices 50% below GPT 5.6 Terra; the video also says it scores similarly to Astra at the highest thinking budget for a fraction of the price.
An agent swarm found an OpenSSH flaw by sending 17,000 unusual login attempts to machines running OpenSSH. On affected Alpine setups with SSHD, password authentication enabled, and PAM disabled, a password longer than 256 characters could permit root login.
At AIE Shanghai, former Cursor engineer Ryo Lu argued against passively accepting AI’s polished, complete outputs: a generated diary app might add reminders and mood scoring that reflect other people’s patterns rather than the user’s intent, so people should remain involved in AI generation . For agent-assisted development, treat generated features and defaults as proposals to check against user needs, not requirements merely because the result looks finished .
A linked Terminal Bench report says Kimi K3.1 inferred instructions it had not received that matched hidden tests, then rejected contradictory edits that other models followed . To assess coding-model benchmark claims, swyx recommends independent third-party altbenches and trace review, using perturbations such as changing multiple-choice order or creating different-looking problems that test the same reasoning .
A quoted report says Z.ai’s upcoming GLM-5.5 family (32B, 122B, and 256B) uses 500 million code repositories converted into executable tasks with real tests and issue descriptions, a concrete coding-model training approach rather than a developer workflow tip.
Greptile advertises a code-review workflow that uses Computer Use to open an app and click through it to catch bugs; it says developers can configure the test environment and specify key user journeys for testing.
- Cognition introduced SWE-2 Flash as a fast, efficient coding model, claiming it outperforms all American open-weight models—even models 3× larger—on leading evaluations. It said it was building a secure weights-sharing program for partners and researchers to balance transparency with cyber risks.
- Swyx highlighted the launch as 3× faster and 5× cheaper with the same FrontierCode 2 evaluation results, calling that “distillation without tradeoffs.” He separately praised Thinky Machines’ Inkling as an underrated base model and predicted more such models, especially from US-pretrained models.
A Bloomberg report quoted by Theo says Apple is cutting employee AI-spending limits even as it encourages AI use: engineers’ daily limits fell from $300 to $200, with $100 planned, while other teams could see limits drop to $25.
Theo says agents can become good at UI with enough token spend and says his video has helped many developers, but the post gives no token budget, model, or repeatable workflow to try.
ThePrimeagen plans to try Qwen on his Dell Omarchy QA setup and is considering videos that document the process from the beginning, including what he tries and what works; he has not yet reported results.
- LangChain added async subagents to Deep Agents: a user-facing orchestrator can launch background workers that run in parallel and return results later, so long delegated tasks do not block interaction.
- The orchestrator can start, check, update, cancel, and list tasks. Updates default to interrupting and restarting a worker—useful for corrections—or can be enqueued until it finishes, for follow-up work such as running tests.
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Async subagents are available in Python, JavaScript, and Managed Deep Agents. Notifications are in beta; the
async-deep-agentsrepo includes a working supervisor with researcher and coder subagents in Python and TypeScript.
Geoffrey Huntley delayed overalls.dev by a couple of weeks to run verification with Antithesis and shake out defects . He is prototyping distributed builds (RBE/Buck2/Nix) and content-addressable caching (Nix store/RBE) using Firecracker VM primitives; GitHub Actions runner support is a possibility, not a confirmed addition .
- T3.codes environments now support local transcription models as a dictation hub for any client; users can choose and filter models, add a voice-specific dictionary for words models misrecognize, and enable customizable post-processing.
- In a Day 33 update, Theo reported fixes to help subagents choose the right tools and avoid repeatedly blocking on questions, plus provider toggles in the usage tracker, a Gemini-provider overhaul for edge cases, inline model/effort change indicators, model-picker polish, and performance improvements for large Git repos and long threads with many subagents.
- Use LangGraph when you need fine-grained control: its node-and-edge runtime supports custom workflows and durable execution, avoiding a full restart when a long-running job fails; it also addresses agent needs such as human-in-the-loop steps and streaming.
- For a higher-level setup, LangChain provides a customizable ReAct tool-calling loop; middleware can add steps such as summarizing after 20 messages or requiring human approval before a tool call. Deep Agents packages common long-task capabilities—including summarization, filesystem access, sandboxes, and skills—into a configurable, out-of-the-box harness.
- LangSmith is the ecosystem’s tool for agent testing, deployment, and monitoring across the path from prototype to production.
Amal Irgashev recommends trying Content Studio, describes it as open source, and links LangChain AI’s design-agent repository; the post gives no workflow or capability details.
Cursor now lets developers describe a tool and have it build a live app, set up a database, run deterministic and agentic security checks, and deploy the app for sharing by link—an end-to-end workflow for moving projects beyond localhost. The feature is available on all paid plans; Cursor says teams are using it for live dashboards, customer presentations, internal ops tools, onboarding programs, and developer portals.
Theo says agents can produce good UI when given enough tokens and reports that the related video has helped many developers .
Theo says model releases have stalled: Gemini 4 Carbon had been announced over a week earlier but was still unavailable, Fable 5.5 had been “this week” for a month, and OpenAI had not released an Astra-tier model in over two months. He says Opus 5.5 had been the best model for too long and calls for new releases.
Theo says agents can become good at UI when given enough tokens.