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Re:Show HN: Cogency – Cognitive Architecture for AI Agents by weego on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:40AM (#44570529)
It seems to me that every iteration of AI agent framework idea is taking us closer down the path to what is ultimately just an Actor framework where the mailbox is an AI agent instead of a code loop.

Someone should probably just cut out the middlemen and do exactly that. A mature Actor topology orchestrator with a set of node types varying from binary logic to full agentic loops would go a long way.

It might be more like Apache Storm than strictly an actor framework the more I think about it, but it's there somewhere.

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Re:Show HN: Cogency – Cognitive Architecture for AI Agents by cogencyai on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @12:09AM (#44578581)
Most AI agent frameworks today are really just big event loops pretending to be distributed systems. True actors are isolated, stateful entities that communicate only via messages.

Cogency’s design moves in that direction with modular nodes and message passing, but it’s not fully distributed or truly actor-based yet. The real challenge is building that kind of system in a way that stays manageable and debuggable.

It’s definitely the natural next step for AI frameworks. Thanks for putting it so clearly.

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