Programming Throwdown
189: Agentic Loops
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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
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