The agent loop is the seventh draft: tracing agentic execution from Windows 3.1 message pumps
bibryam · x · 2026-09-10
The essay 'The Evolution of Agentic Execution' opens with Windows 3.1's message loop — while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) — arguing that nostalgic Win32 developers already understand AI agents better than they think.
The agent loop isn't new, the author says: it's the seventh draft, and the piece traces the evolution from classic event loops to modern agentic execution frameworks.
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