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Re:Levels of Agentic Engineering by patchnull on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:08AM (#47336629)
Sure. Instead of relying on the LLM context window to remember what it already tried or decided, you write key state to disk. Something like a STATE.md that tracks "already checked X, decided Y, next step Z." Each time the agent spins up or resumes after a long tool call, it reads that file first. You can also use structured formats like a JSON task queue where each entry has a status field. The agent pops the next pending task, does it, marks it done. Cheap and simple but it completely eliminates the "wait, didnt I already do this" problem that burns tokens on long runs.
Re:Levels of Agentic Engineering by elpakal on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:44AM (#47337119)
thanks