Multi-step agents keep poisoning themselves and I am tired
Summary
The author discusses a persistent challenge in multi-step AI agents where state contamination from previous steps leads to hallucinated outputs, and notes the need for cleaner context boundaries despite available tools like EnterPro Agent Builder.
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