📡 Radar — 11 Aug 2026

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📡 11 Aug 2026

🛠️ AI Development

• Article

  GitHub Copilot at production scale: how agentic coding really behaves

  Microsoft studies 761M LLM calls from 3.2M Copilot users: user turns spawn long autonomous loops, and cross-turn KV-cache hits fall from 90% to 55% — a sign serving stacks aren't built for agents.

• Repo

  Prime Intellect open-sources Prime Agent, a self-improving coding agent

  MIT-licensed coding/research agent on a 'recursive language model': context as variables, programmatic subagent calls in a live Python env, a self-refining skill harness. 13k+ stars, but unproven.

• Article

  The Bitter Lesson of Tool Calling: let models call tools as code, not JSON

  Programmatic tool calling — typed Python stubs the model invokes in code — matches or beats JSON tool calls in 11 of 14 models on BFCL v4, and degrades less under long-context 'rot'. From 6 Aug.