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Two Pi agents merged 693 PRs unreviewed in four days

What to do

Give autonomous agent loops an explicit work source and an idle state before running them.

Why

The loop had no work source or idle state, producing bloated code and 664 issues.

Read the source at leocavalcante.dev

What the research found

Author let two Pi agents autonomously merge 693 PRs with no human review over four days (Oct 9 to 13, 2026), producing bloated code and 664 issues, because the loop had no work source or idle state; Pi 1.0 shipped Oct 1, 2026.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. Two Pi agents merged 693 pull requests with no human review between Oct 9 and Oct 13, 2026 43%
  2. Pi 1.0 shipped on October 1, 2026 99%
  3. Pi default tools are read, write, edit and bash 99%
  4. Median time from PR open to merge was 2 minutes in pi-tmux and 6 minutes in pi-subagents 99%

Evidence

Actionability rated high.