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It's like Christmas in July for frontier coding models.
There's a lot of talk about AI costs, but I've managed to increase the rate of code production by orders of magnitude while reducing the average cost per feature branch over the past month.
Models like GLM-5.2 and Kimi-k3 have been a big part of that, but so has better automation.
I don't keep confirming prompts or redirecting my agent to check out the CONTRIBUTING.md to apply repo conventions, that's baked in. Boris Cherny was just posting about how to build the abstractions to push the limits to your attention in AI coding: https://x.com/bcherny/status/2077929390806073807
If that agent isn't proactive, it's just a chatbot!
I already know what repos I'm building on today, I know I'm going to check out what's new in the arXiv, look for code and licenses, smoke-test the repo, adapt the method to my own application, apply my own org's conventions to shape up a PR.
Now I orchestrate agents to work this out, when an idea makes it through the gates, I'm notified about a PR to review.
And I'm seeing more throughput by scheduling AI coding runs in Github Actions, get outrider: https://github.com/remyxai/outrider
It's a bit like moneyballing vibecoding.
We're using AI to filter the firehose of methods published to the arXiv, matching against your repo and development history, to meet the challenges to improving your application.
Way beyond AI chat with arXiv, the coding agents ground the recommendations and implementations on actual code, using verification and testing to gate which proposals get ramped up to PRs for review.
Check out this Outrider contribution, making its way upstream into the libraries we all use: https://github.com/huggingface/peft/pull/3382
There's a lot of talk about AI costs, but I've managed to increase the rate of code production by orders of magnitude while reducing the average cost per feature branch over the past month.
Models like GLM-5.2 and Kimi-k3 have been a big part of that, but so has better automation.
I don't keep confirming prompts or redirecting my agent to check out the CONTRIBUTING.md to apply repo conventions, that's baked in. Boris Cherny was just posting about how to build the abstractions to push the limits to your attention in AI coding: https://x.com/bcherny/status/2077929390806073807
If that agent isn't proactive, it's just a chatbot!
I already know what repos I'm building on today, I know I'm going to check out what's new in the arXiv, look for code and licenses, smoke-test the repo, adapt the method to my own application, apply my own org's conventions to shape up a PR.
Now I orchestrate agents to work this out, when an idea makes it through the gates, I'm notified about a PR to review.
And I'm seeing more throughput by scheduling AI coding runs in Github Actions, get outrider: https://github.com/remyxai/outrider
It's a bit like moneyballing vibecoding.
We're using AI to filter the firehose of methods published to the arXiv, matching against your repo and development history, to meet the challenges to improving your application.
Way beyond AI chat with arXiv, the coding agents ground the recommendations and implementations on actual code, using verification and testing to gate which proposals get ramped up to PRs for review.
Check out this Outrider contribution, making its way upstream into the libraries we all use: https://github.com/huggingface/peft/pull/3382