Descriptions:
Cole Medin hosts a live stream revealing the winners of the Dynamus and Hero AI coding hackathon, a competition featuring a $17,000 prize pool spread across ten finalists — with first place earning $5,000. Medin walks through honorable mentions before unveiling the top ten, noting that dozens of strong submissions narrowly missed the cut, making the judging process genuinely difficult.
The second half of the stream pivots to the future of agentic coding, with Medin demoing Claude Code’s newly released agent teams feature, introduced alongside the Opus 4.6 release. Unlike sub-agents — which run in parallel but report back independently to a single orchestrator — agent teams share a live task list and can send messages directly to one another, enabling real coordination: one teammate can tell another to hold off on a task, or signal the lead agent mid-execution.
Medin explores agent teams live, walking through both the promise and the current rough edges. The feature is experimental, highly non-deterministic, and token-heavy due to the overhead of inter-agent communication. Despite these limitations, he argues this collaborative model represents where agentic engineering is heading, drawing a contrast with the isolation of traditional sub-agent architectures.
📺 Source: Cole Medin · Published February 15, 2026
🏷️ Format: Livestream
