A beginner rebuilds their local AI assistant around a persistent agent loop
A non-programmer building a personal assistant (Gemma 4 26B on a MacBook Pro) asks whether ditching a rigid pipeline for a persistent agent loop is the right call. The consensus: yes — pipelines die when context goes stale, while a loop with a tiny fact-only scratchpad file is simpler and more robust. Practical tips include letting the loop decide its own stopping point instead of fixed step counts.