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This Week in AI Dev: The Local-Agent Stack Went Production-Real (Week 27 of 2026)

Originally published on rohitraj.tech

Week 27 of 2026 in AI dev tools: DeepReinforce's Ornith-1.0 ships MIT-licensed self-scaffolding coding models from 9B to 397B, Qwen 3.6 27B becomes the local-dev sweet spot at 28GB, vLLM turns one API call into a bounded multi-model collaboration, Herdr multiplexes 15+ coding agents in your terminal, Wayfinder routes deterministically between local and hosted LLMs, and Anthropic ships Claude Tag for async Slack delegation.


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