Alibaba's Agent Coded 16 Days. A Human Wrote 13 Commits.
Alibaba says Qwen3.8-Max coded unattended for 16 days, and unlike every rival long-horizon claim it shipped the whole commit trace on public GitHub. Open it and the 16 days become 'more than ten' in Alibaba's own words, 13 of 648 commits turn out to be a human's, and one person still holds the merge keys.
August 5, 2026 · 10 min read