Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent

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AI AND ML

Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops

To demonstrate the capabilities of its next-generation Muse Spark model, Meta has released a terminal coding agent called Muse Code that it thinks can help developers to tidy up their software projects.

Meta co-trained Muse Code on version 1.2 of its Muse Spark model, also released this week and now apparently boasting improved code generation smarts.

Developers can think of this beta release as the equivalent to OpenAI Codex or Anthropic’s Claude Code, two other LLM-based service offerings tweaked for the modern coder. Meta designed its new agent to be handy at planning changes to a codebase, writing the code and validating the results.

Currently, Meta has Muse Spark locked away as a proprietary, closed-weight model hosted in the cloud, an approach its rivals also embrace but which departs from the open-weight approach Meta previously implemented with its...

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