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The Pulse #159: Long-running agents and orchestrating lots of them

One trend this year may well be experimentation with agent orchestration and long-running agents – which is already underway. Also: Claude Code bans OpenCode while Codex embraces it, and more

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Gergely Orosz
Jan 15, 2026
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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me.

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  1. Long-running agents, and orchestrating lots of them. Expect projects and experiments which push agents to go further this year, with early examples from Cursor, and the author of “…

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