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Current enthusiasm and hype around fully autonomous agent loops has outrun the actual engineering discipline needed to make such loops reliable, unlike Kubernetes-style loops which are deterministic.

In the AIEWF loop debate, Dex Horthy argued that hype around autonomous agent loops has outpaced real engineering discipline, contrasting them with deterministic control loops like Kubernetes. ✦ AI generated

Dex Horthy · Latent Space · 2026-07-14 · original ↗

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Dex Horthy from HumanLayer claimed that “the hype is outrunning the discipline.” He wasn’t against loops, per se, noting that Kubernetes is built on control loops — “but they’re deterministic loops.”

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