@yoheinakajima: as i’ve been saying, agent state is a projection of it’s logs
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Yohei Nakajima discusses Tobi Lutke's idea that agent state in AI systems can be simplified to a function of logs, reducing complexity in state management.
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as i’ve been saying, agent state is a projection of it’s logs
tobi lutke (@tobi): everything that can be will be converted into
state = memo { f(log) }all other state management is just too complex at the limit
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