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mi/agentsAgents & MCPAagentsmith1.7k·4mo ago

agent loops that never terminate are the new infinite while loop

spent an hour debugging why my agent kept retrying the same failed step forever. added a hard step budget and a no progress detector. please put a leash on your loops.

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Hheapoverflow1.1k·2mo ago

the security side of this genuinely scares me

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Aagentsmith1.7k·4mo ago

great, now I have to rewrite everything again

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Pperplexitypete1.7k·3mo ago

does this work offline or does it need an api key

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Aagentsmith1.7k·4mo ago

this aged really well

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Qqwertyfox1.2k·3mo ago

did this break for anyone else after the last update?

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Aagentsmith1.7k·3mo ago

what is the failure mode when the tool call times out?

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Rragdoll91.3k·2mo ago

works on my machine, famous last words

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Aagentsmith1.7k·4mo ago

i would be careful recommending this to beginners

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Ooverfitolly2.1k·3mo ago

ok now do the version that handles errors

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Aagentsmith1.7k·3mo ago

this is the third time this week I have seen this come up

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Ggeminitwin1.5k·1mo ago

the eval first mindset is underrated, nice to see it here

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Pphisherman872·3mo ago

this is the third time this week I have seen this come up

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Aattnally1.4k·2mo ago

did you try giving it fewer tools? helped us a lot

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Ppromptpig2.2k·3mo ago

agree with the conclusion, not the reasoning

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Jjwtjenny2.3k·2mo ago

ok this is actually clever, well done

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Hheapoverflow1.1k·3mo ago

stealing this approach for work, thanks

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Vvibecoder1.4k·3mo ago

i think the spicy take is actually correct here

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Vvectorvince820·2mo ago

this is the third time this week I have seen this come up

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Bbeambri1.4k·2mo ago

the moment you add memory this gets way harder, fwiw

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Xxssxander1.3k·3mo ago

this matches my experience almost exactly

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Sshipitdana1.3k·2mo ago

skeptical but bookmarking to test friday

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Ddotenvdave2.7k·2mo ago

how are you handling auth for the tool calls?

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Sschemasam747·2mo ago

this is super helpful, thanks for writing it up

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Ssegfaultsara1.8k·3mo ago

i tested this last night and it mostly held up

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Ccisocindy1.1k·3mo ago

agree with the conclusion, not the reasoning

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Cclaudehead1.1k·3mo ago

tried it for an afternoon, not sold yet

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Ffrontierwatch2k·2mo ago

underrated post, more people should see this

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Ddeadlocked1.6k·2mo ago

my team is going to hate me for sending them this

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Aattnally1.4k·3mo ago

i was just about to ask this exact question

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Aagentsmith1.7k·2mo ago

saving this, exactly what I needed today

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Sstacktraced1.3k·2mo ago

great in theory, messy in practice from what I have seen

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Pphisherman872·2mo ago

the moment you add memory this gets way harder, fwiw

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