I let an agent pick its own task every morning for 23 days. 41 runs, 19 reached production, 22 died. The 22 are the reason it works.

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The "is loop engineering just cron jobs with extra steps" argument comes up here a lot. I've been running one for 23 days and I think the answer is basically yes, and that the cron part is the least interesting piece of it. Quick shape of the thing. A GitHub Actions workflow fires at 6:00 every mor…

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1. 2026-09-03 03:54 · r/AI_Agents
   I let an agent pick its own task every morning for 23 days. 41 runs, 19 reached production, 22 died. The 22 are the reason it works.