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'Loops' are the hackiest thing ever invented I don't think they're good for anything.

I think a researched plan is much better, the agent will follow the plan.

You can allow for an 'iterative' strategy for solving a problem, with guardrails so that it doesn't try to many times.

Yes - you can use Codex as the 'manager AI' but I don't see much benefit - it has a much shorter context window. Codex is better 'at the front' where it matters.

That said - it's 'auto-compaction' is quite good.

I don't believe the hype over OP5 lagging that much, it's fine as a working AI.

Other than for truly automated tasks, I don't think there's much that an AI can 'work a few days on'.

That form of 'loop for days until it works' produces nightmare code and architecture.

Fun for experiments and learning but not for code u want to keep.



Did you see Nvidia's 100% on ARC AGI-3 yesterday? OVA was just Opus 5 in a loop.

They can definitely be powerful.




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