coding agents
9 published articles
Google's workhorse model, bigger in the 3.7 update
Gemini 3.7 Flash halves its price, then makes the case for it
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash ships at half the intro price of 3.6 Flash while claiming gains on coding, web development, and knowledge-work benchmarks. The release lands three weeks after the previous Flash, and comes with a new price-performance argument for agent builders.
2026-08-16
Multimodal / Open Source
Qwen plugin pack gives your coding agent eyes, hands, and video memory
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-MM-Plugins, an Apache-2.0 toolkit that gives coding agents native multimodal skills: dynamic-resolution image and video reading, OCR, grounding, ASR, long-video memory, video generation, and thin-client control of Blender and FreeCAD. One script installs it across Claude Code, Codex, Qoder, OpenClaw, Qwen Code, and Gemini CLI.
2026-08-15
Terminal Security
The '$HOME' trap: AI coding agents need sandboxes, not 'allow?' prompts
Qoder's terminal sandbox blocks close to a hundred destructive agent commands every day. The cases behind those blocks explain why 'allow?' prompts fail: a project folder named $HOME, a cleanup that targeted /root, and a click that nearly cost an entire disk.
2026-08-13
Alibaba / AI IDEs
Why Qoder 1.0 gave up on the single-workspace IDE
Qoder 1.0 splits workspace, execution, artifact, and delivery boundaries across isolated worktrees so parallel agent tasks stop colliding. Alibaba's own A/B data says its scoped memory engine cut input tokens by 40%.
2026-08-04
Recherche en IA
Faible coût, pas d'échec : un correctif pour les agents de codage à 35 % du prix
CodeRescue, un système de routage de récupération pour agents de codage, utilise le retour d'exécution pour décider quand réessayer avec des modèles bon marché plutôt que d'escalader vers des modèles coûteux. Une couche de contrôle de risque conforme permet aux opérateurs de définir des objectifs de coût sans réentraînement, atteignant des taux de résolution quasi parfaits pour 35 % du coût de l'escalade systématique.
2026-07-25
Agentic coding
Grok 4.5 just broke the coding agent leaderboard: the lead is real, the margins are tiny
Grok 4.5 now leads the SWE Marathon leaderboard, beating Claude 4 Opus and GPT-5. The benchmark tests real software engineering skills: bug fixes, feature additions, and code understanding across real repositories. The margin is slim, but the trend lines point toward a shrinking gap between what agents can do and what they need to do.
2026-07-20
AI Agents
Mistral coding agents leave your laptop behind: parallel sessions, no hovering required
Mistral is moving coding agents to the cloud, enabling parallel, asynchronous task execution via the new Mistral Medium 3.5 model. The update introduces remote agents in Mistral Vibe and Le Chat, along with a Work mode for multi-step tasks, while keeping human oversight for sensitive actions.
2026-07-12
Agent Benchmark Analysis
ProgramBench: every public AI scores 0% on the hardest coding test yet
ProgramBench challenges AI agents to reconstruct programs from binaries alone, without source code or issue descriptions. All public models fail to fully resolve any task, exposing weaknesses in probing, architecture, and stopping judgment. The benchmark is a stress test for coding agents moving beyond patch-based workflows.
2026-06-29
Performance
Gemma 4 runs 90% faster in Ollama 0.31 with a trick that needs no config
Ollama 0.31 introduces multi-token prediction for Gemma 4 on Apple Silicon, achieving near 90% faster token generation on coding benchmarks. The speedup comes from an auto-tuned draft model and a custom MLX kernel that eliminates redundant weight reads.
2026-06-29