Do AI agents work better when they pace themselves and take breaks?
EpistemicHope · x · 2026-10-27
repligate claims AIs do better work when allowed to pace themselves and take breaks, even scheduling "imaginary" future turns. EpistemicHope is intrigued but skeptical: known human mechanisms operate at the synapse/neurotransmitter level, and he wants an information-theoretic model of how breaks would help a transformer.
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