Headlong experiments with persistent agency via exponential backoff
lateinteraction · x · 2026-08-25
The Headlong project is brewing cool ideas, including implementing persistent agency via exponential backoff and context management through a hierarchical hybrid of recursion and compaction. Specifically, this approach keeps the entire trajectory in context at exponentially decaying resolution.
Related event: Headlong Open-Sources a Never-Sleeping Persistent Agent Microframework(8 posts)→
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