'Proactive' AI agents are just cron jobs poking your agent every 5 minutes
cspenn · x · 2026-10-27
A sharp one-liner demystifying the "proactive" agent hype: under the hood, it's just a cron job poking your agent every 5 minutes — a pointed reminder of the gap between agent marketing language and actual engineering implementation.
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