Long-Running Agents Compound Mistakes Across Dozens of Steps
alifcoder · x · 2026-10-07
Part 4 of the thread: a five-minute task is easy to supervise, but an agent working across dozens of steps accumulates assumptions, reuses stale context, retries failed actions, and keeps operating after the user stops watching. Even basic computer-use guidance now covers session recovery, result verification, browser-activity review, and explicit handling of site access requests—because the agent maintains state across the whole workflow.
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