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