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