@Yeuoly1: I'm actually curious about what everyone defines as 'an Agent' or 'Agent colleague.' It sounds pretty appealing, but LLMs are fundamentally stateless. What exactly is this entity called 'Agent colleague'? Is it an Agent-Loop with a bunch of m…
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Discusses the definition of AI Agent and 'Agent colleague,' pointing out that LLMs are inherently stateless and questioning the concrete form of the Agent entity.
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I’m actually quite curious about what exactly people mean by “an Agent” or “Agent colleague” — it sounds pretty sexy, but LLMs are fundamentally stateless underneath.
What exactly is this entity called an “Agent colleague”? Is it an Agent-Loop carrying a bunch of markdown, or is it a session in Claude Code / Codex?
BlanPlan (@blanplan): The idea of not treating Agents as colleagues is correct. The user interface also needs a control surface — instead of mimicking a Slack-style multi-channel team structure, a single conversation entry point to view the agent’s backend progress is more reasonable. Let the agent run large tasks and produce an executable summary, with the user able to intervene at any time.
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