The hard part of agents was never the model — it's hours-long reliability, says dev on OpenAI's Agents API
shaunralston · x · 2026-09-11
A developer's take on OpenAI's new Agents API: the model was never the hard part. The challenge is an AI that can work for hours — use tools, remember what it has done, recover from failures, and not choke on massive logs. He credits the Agents API as the glue that addresses this, calling it a new engine.
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