189: Agentic Loops

189: Agentic Loops

Intro topic: Building in plain language

News/Links:

• RAM prices going through the roof . Tom’s Hardware
  • https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-climb-500-percent-in-12-months-up-to-10x-the-lowest-ever-tracked-prices-128gb-of-ddr5-now-usd3-399
• Mario meet Pareto
  • https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
• Qwen 3.8 versus Muse Glimmer
  • https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/serve-qwen-3-8-27b-fast/
• Everyone should know SIMD
  • https://mitchellh.com/writing/everyone-should-know-simd
    
    

Book of the Show

• Patrick
  • Waves in an Impossible Sea by Matt Strassler
    • https://amzn.to/4xXnbOK
• Jason
  • Diffusion World Modeling
    • https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.12399
      
      

Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h
Tool of the Show

• Patrick
  • Nubby’s Number Factory
• Jason
  • Opencode https://opencode.ai/
    
    

Topic: Agentic Loops

• Managing llm uncertainty
• Polling / Timed Loops
  • Intelligent cronjobs
• Autoresearch
  • Andrej Karpathy
  • Recursive Self Improvement
• Verifiers
• Terminating conditions
• Managing context
  • Subagents
• Best Practices
  • Watchdogs to correct loops that are stuck/aborted