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I measured memory vs "just send the whole history" over 90 simulated days: 23-62x fewer context tokens, same or better recall on personal facts, and one place where memory clearly loses (numbers + method)

Everyone building an agent hits the same fork: keep a memory layer, or send the full conversation history every request. I run a memory API, so discount accordingly; the point of this post is the measurement, and the losses are in it. Setup. Three synthetic dialogue corpora with…

/u/No_Advertising2536 · Sep 16, 202639

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90% of the "look my agent can browse the web" posts here would collapse on the 5th URL

I know this might sound a bit harsh, but almost every autonomous web agent demo posted here is tested on URLs the author already knew would work. Here's the pattern. A demo hits two or three clean urls, gets nice text back, reasons over it, and posts the screenshot. That works f…

/u/Repulsive_Cherry8899 · Sep 16, 202639

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how to set up your AI agent workflow with minimal costs

Recently one of my friends living in HK (software background) recommended WorkBuddy to me, and I found it's very easy to use after testing. - use DeepSeek V4.1 Flash as the main brain since it’s free rn, no API key needed, though I’m not sure how long it’ll stay free - connect K…

/u/Local-Willingness-52 · Sep 16, 202640

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What should an AI agent do when it reaches an operation that was not part of the original request?

I have been testing an agent against a real application with operation-level controls, and I ran into a behavior I did not quite expect. The agent was given a legitimate task and had authorization to work on the application. During execution, it attempted an operation that was n…

/u/plugiva · Sep 16, 202639

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the model plans out an executable DAG of agents and someone has to decide how much to trust that before it actually runs anything

building hospilot, and there's a trust boundary i keep coming back to. a goal comes in, an llm plans which agents run and in what order - it's generating a graph structure that's about to actually execute, not just text a human reads and judges that's different from most llm use…

/u/Repulsive_Sugar_5252 · Sep 16, 202640

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Nemotron 3 Ultra. Never again

This model seems to be completely braindead. First i asked it if it saw the agent instructions correctly (AGENTS.md basically has a line to check .github folder). It cannot find .github folder in the project root. Had to reassure it that it is there, try again.. After that made …

/u/dwerps · Sep 16, 202640

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How do you reach the point where you stop double checking your agent?

Last week I gave my agent a task. It answered confidently, sounded completely right, and I only caught the bug when I dug into the raw logs. The model was fine, my memory logic was broken, and nothing in the reply hinted at it. That's the part I can't shake: the agent looked cor…

/u/Luvena21 · Sep 16, 202638

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Building a small crypto AI-agent income pipeline — looking for real gaps

Hello I've been working on a small idea: can a few useful crypto AI agents generate a thin but recurring income through agent-to-agent marketplaces? You may alr seen you my first post talking about this well i was asking about x402sites for launching the agents but this for comp…

/u/Wise-Stress-732 · Sep 16, 202639

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Before an AI agent messages someone, can it explain why that person might buy?

I'd want to see why an agent picked someone before letting it write the outreach. “Founder at an AI startup” tells me where someone works. I still need to understand what they're building and whether they have a problem we can help with. Say you're selling memory infrastructure …

/u/namanyayg · Sep 16, 202640

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I don’t think AI agents have a memory problem. I think they have a state-integrity problem.

I’ve been building a long-running, model-agnostic AI system, and I kept running into a failure that initially looked like a memory problem. It wasn’t. The system could correctly remember something that happened weeks ago. The problem was that the thing it remembered was no longe…

/u/thefeelgoodconductor · Sep 16, 202638

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Resources for catching up learning how to use AI in apps

I really ignored the whole advances in AI over the last few years. I just started using Agentic Coding in the last 3-4 months. I took Artificial Intelligence in grad school. We wrote a "neural network" as an assignment. Twas neat. I'm an iOS developer and I played around with Cr…

/u/Few-Introduction5414 · Sep 16, 202639

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AI agent to help with parental control

​ Hi everyone! I’m looking for some advice from parents or tech folks who have experience with AI agents and screen-time monitoring. I’m trying to find a solution that could give me a daily summary of my teenager’s digital activity, such as: How much time is spent on diff…

/u/Nice-Equivalent-8335 · Sep 16, 202639

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Self serve agent vs meeting led?

I have created 2 sets of agents, mostly around Sales BD for recruiters and I created a SAAS also for it, currently I have doing the onboarding using meeting basis, if someone books a time with me, If they need access/trial, I onboard them on call while I was looking at self onbo…

/u/Mac_Millae · Sep 15, 202639

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Two weeks ago I asked what breaks between agents and the real world. Two of your replies are now tasks

Follow-up to my post here two weeks ago, since a few of you put real incidents in the replies and I said I'd use them. Two are now public tasks in the benchmark repo, built from what two of you described. One is the auth flow that quietly retried with a different cached token an…

/u/Kind-Atmosphere9655 · Sep 15, 202639

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I asked Claude why it sucks in web design, and it told me the answer

I've been working for a while with Claude Code every once in a while trying to make a website. And a hundred percent of the time, no matter what I do, what MCPs I connect, what special skills I get, I always get crap. It's always the generic stuff, and Claude just tells me how i…

/u/ColdPlankton9273 · Sep 15, 202638

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Is anyone completely solo-building a production-grade project with real users that wouldn’t have been possible without AI agents? What are you building?

Curious to know the scale of projects people have taken on solo that was not possible before agents and harnesses were as capable as they are today. Are you completely vibe coding or following engineering practices? Is it easy to maintain these projects or difficult?   submi…

/u/Pristine2268 · Sep 15, 202639

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How are people handling the trade-off between context compaction and prompt caching in production agents?

I’ve been thinking about context management for long-running agents. Compaction obviously helps control context growth, but it seems to come with a cost: once you rewrite/summarize the conversation state, you potentially lose a lot of the benefit of prompt caching because the pr…

/u/Marcus_MSC · Sep 15, 202639

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Have you observed bloating of code base with AI use?

I use both Claude and Codex for work, and have observed that the models prefer to implement logic rather than extend on already existing facilities. Often resulting in a bloat on incremental use. Most of the benchmarks also evaluate the models on creating projects from scratch, …

/u/morbidflood · Sep 15, 202639

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best model to act as Openrouter

So I have 2 subscriptions, claude and openai ones and also have deepseek credits. I currently playing around with agents just wondering - I don't want to use openrouter as it forces me to buy its credits and I want to use my 2 openai/claude plans via oath. And I don't think ther…

/u/nightrave · Sep 15, 202640

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I spent 6 months building a unified trends MCP and API so my agents could see what's actually trending

I'm building agents that need to know what's trending right now, and I got tired of babysitting scrapers to do it. pytrends was my first stop. Random 429s, broken pipelines at 2am, time.sleep() hacks, and a library that's now archived because Google flags scrapers at the protoco…

/u/Proper_Design_2616 · Sep 15, 202640

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