Dev argues truly always-on autonomous agents have never actually been tried
jacob_posel · x · 2026-09-30
Developer jacobposel argues that most agents today are reactive, and genuinely always-on autonomous agents — ones that persist in the background, proactively sense and act — have never seriously been attempted. The post is a single sentence, but it points to an unexplored direction in agent design.
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