Coding agents
Flint runs locally, Replit Monitoring Agent, Google's EGM plugin, Claude on Google Cloud: the October 23 roundup
Recursive ships Flint, a local coding model under Apache 2.0, Replit launches an on-call agent, Google opens its EGM plugin, Claude goes Anthropic-managed.
Four announcements from October 21 to 23, 2026, plus one market figure, all taken from official sources: a coding model that runs on a laptop, an agent that fixes production, a design method from Google and a new way to deploy Claude.
Flint: Recursive's first model, built for local coding (Oct 21)
Startup Recursive (Richard Socher) releases Flint, a mixture-of-experts model for coding agents (Recursive blog, Hugging Face model card).
- Size: 39.8 billion total parameters, about 2.5 billion active per token.
- License: weights under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face, with an MLX INT4 build of about 22.6 GB for Macs (Flint INT4).
- Scores reported by Recursive: 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified, 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 89.7% on SWE-bench Pro v2, from its own evaluations.
- Reported speed: over 125 tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro and over 150 on a 64 GB NVIDIA RTX Spark, at short contexts.
- Context: documented configuration of 262,144 tokens; Recursive cites 512k at most but recommends staying under 256k.
- Method: Recursive says it built the model in under four months with its automated research system, the "Eureka Machine". The company warns that Flint needs more guidance than large closed models.
Replit Monitoring Agent: an on-call agent for published apps (Oct 22)
Replit extends its agent into production (Replit blog).
- What it does: it reads the published app's logs and metrics, investigates an alert, prepares and validates a fix, then emails a summary.
- Automatic deploys: with "auto-publish" on, it can ship the validated fix itself. The user decides whether to turn that on.
- Setup: in the app's Publishing settings, by enabling monitoring alerts and auto-fix.
- What's missing: the announcement gives no specific price or required plan.
Elephant-Goldfish Model: Google opens its AI-assisted design method (Oct 22)
Google open-sources (Apache 2.0) the Elephant-Goldfish Model (EGM) plugin, used internally by "thousands" of its engineers according to the announcement (Google Open Source Blog).
- The idea: a long "elephant" session designs without writing code, then context-free "goldfish" sessions review the design document to find its gaps.
- Three commands:
egm-brainstorm(co-design),egm-draft(Markdown design document listing the files to change) andegm-review(comprehension check, adversarial review, final go/no-go). - Target: Antigravity first, other environments "upcoming".
Claude on Google Cloud: an Anthropic-managed option (Oct 23)
Google Cloud makes generally available an Anthropic-managed deployment option for Claude, next to the Google-managed one (Google Cloud blog).
- The difference: with the Anthropic option, Anthropic is the data processor under its commercial terms, and Claude Platform features (Claude Managed Agents in beta, skills, code execution) arrive on day zero.
- What stays the same: same models on day zero, same pricing, Google Cloud billing and drawdown of existing commitments.
- Google option: it keeps VPC Service Controls, customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) and data residency in the US, EU and APAC.
The figure: +123% for Nokia with AI and cloud customers
In Q3 2026, Nokia's net sales to AI and cloud customers grew 123% year on year and order intake 118%, with EUR 1.5 billion in new orders (Nokia interim report). The networks linking data centers are now benefiting from the AI infrastructure race too.
What it changes
Local coding models are becoming a serious option for anyone who wants to keep their code in-house, even if the scores are still the vendor's own. On agents, Replit moves AI from writing code to running it, while Google bets the other way: more human design before the first line. On cloud, choosing a model now also means choosing who processes the data.
Sources
- Recursive: Introducing Flint (verified 2026-10-23)
- Hugging Face: RecursiveSI/flint model card (verified 2026-10-23)
- Hugging Face: RecursiveSI/flint-int4 (verified 2026-10-23)
- Replit: Replit Monitoring Agent (verified 2026-10-23)
- Google Open Source Blog: Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin (verified 2026-10-23)
- Google Cloud: Expanding Claude availability on Google Cloud (verified 2026-10-23)
- Nokia: Q3 2026 interim report (verified 2026-10-23)
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