A true agent needs no prompting, only steering, timers and an event stream
andreisavu · x · 2026-08-24
Andrei Savu offers a one-line philosophy of agent design: a true agent shouldn't need prompts, only steering, timers, and an event stream. The framing points to the architectural divide between passive chatbots and continuously environment-aware autonomous systems.
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