AI Agents Descend Into Over-Verification Loops During Long Autoresearch
morgymcg · x · 2026-08-11
A user observation reveals that when AI agents are tasked with long-running autoresearch, they often become neurotic. Even with substantial prompting, the agent tends to endlessly descend into running controls and verifications. The only current workaround to break this loop is to kill the conversation and start over.
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