The doom loop isn't the model being dumb, it's the transcript working against you
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Saw a comment last week about an agent that opened the same file eleven times and apologised about it, and it sent me down a rabbit hole, because the shape is so familiar: try a fix, hit the error, apologize sincerely, produce the same fix with the variable names shuffled. Somewhere around lap four…
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- 2026-09-01 03:00 · r/AI_Agents
The doom loop isn't the model being dumb, it's the transcript working against you