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The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat (bobbytables.io)
tptacek 25 minutes ago [-]
You can always find more loops if you want to write the next version of this post. Anything that runs software is a loop of instruction execution.
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swyx 2 hours ago [-]
jamestimmins 1 hours ago [-]
The issue I have with loops is that for truly complex work, where I care about building a generalized solution for a complex problem, the agents frequently reward hack and end up burning indefinitely without finishing until I step in.

Curious how you're addressing this

btables 1 hours ago [-]
Totally. Earth's rotation is a loop too. We should count that.
ratelimitsteve 48 minutes ago [-]
rotation and orbit, and technically the eccentricity in the axis as well
philipwhiuk 4 hours ago [-]
Aren't the loops the wrong way round in the diagram. The tightest loop is the inference loop, then the tool loop and then human loop?
btables 3 hours ago [-]
I think of them from the outside in, so that's why I illustrated it that way.
NitpickLawyer 51 minutes ago [-]
Fascinating. I think it's the first time I've heard it put that way.

For me it's more intuitive the other way around, as the "outer" loops increase in complexity (and can have additional separate loops running inside them). It also makes sense because you can always add more (meta) loops that way.

huflungdung 3 hours ago [-]
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DonHopkins 3 hours ago [-]
You are absolutely correct. It's an i18n/l10n issue. They spin in the opposite direction in the other hemisphere.
draw_down 2 hours ago [-]
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