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Dev tools · September 9, 2026

An open-source SAS interpreter, written by agents

How a small team of agents coordinated to open-source a 50-year-old proprietary technology using only its public documentation, and what it means for the future of statistical programming in clinical trials

An open-source SAS interpreter, written by agents launched on September 9, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,324 of 8,093 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Coding agents are transforming software engineering. They no longer just autocomplete code: they plan, write, execute, and collaborate over increasingly long horizons. On July 20, Cursor showed what this looks like at scale, with a swarm of agents rebuilding SQLite in Rust from its 835-page manual [ 1 ] . Yet one major programming language has been left behind by this new paradigm: SAS. The proprietary technology has dominated regulated industries for decades and still accounts for 68% of clinical statistical programming [ 2 ] . An agent can write SAS, but without programmatic access to a runtime, it cannot execute, test, or correct the programs it produces. That breaks the feedback loop…from kirha.com

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