@teach_fireworks: https://x.com/teach_fireworks/status/2058929780880458125
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Shared a diagram from a Claude engineer, pointing out the three most common problems with long-horizon task agents: failing to maintain state, inaccurately estimating workload, and poorly evaluating their own outputs, and discussed a minimal engineering closed loop.
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Sharing My Exploration and Practice Over the Past Two Months: Minimum Engineering Loop for Long-running Agent
A diagram shared by a Claude engineer accurately captures the three most common issues with long-running agents: inability to maintain state, difficulty estimating workload, and poor self-evaluation of output.
Many people, when first using an agent seriously, go through a similar process.
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