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discussionr/AI_Agents · Oct 10, 2026

Undefined work: agents running for hours without knowing their own goal

A post describes agents that run for hours or days while unable to explain what they are working on, as if the original goal aged out of context and left the agent executing on momentum. Proposed fixes include a task file the agent re-reads every loop and explicit state-your-goal checkpoints for long-running jobs.

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