Agents that forget where they are will repeat work forever — checkpointing is the save-point pattern you need — Checkpointing and Resume
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I watched a research pipeline die at step nine of ten. Forty-three minutes of work, sixty sources fetched, four analyses complete, one synthesis in progress. The worker crashed—OOM, not a logic bug. When it came back, the orchestrator did what I'd told it to do: it started over. Forty-three minutes…
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- 2026-10-02 14:01 · DEV Community — AI
Agents that forget where they are will repeat work forever — checkpointing is the save-point pattern you need — Checkpointing and Resume