Programming Throwdown

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

188: World Models

189: Agentic Loops

189: Agentic Loops

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

189: Agentic Loops

Intro topic: Building in plain language

News/Links:

RAM prices going through the roof . Tom’s Hardware
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-climb-500-percent-in-12-months-up-to-10x-the-lowest-ever-tracked-prices-128gb-of-ddr5-now-usd3-399
Mario meet Pareto
- https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
Qwen 3.8 versus Muse Glimmer
- https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/serve-qwen-3-8-27b-fast/
Everyone should know SIMD
- https://mitchellh.com/writing/everyone-should-know-simd

Book of the Show

Patrick
- Waves in an Impossible Sea by Matt Strassler
  - https://amzn.to/4xXnbOK
Jason
- Diffusion World Modeling
  - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.12399

Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h

Tool of the Show

Patrick
- Nubby’s Number Factory
Jason
- Opencode https://opencode.ai/

Topic: Agentic Loops

Managing llm uncertainty
Polling / Timed Loops
- Intelligent cronjobs
Autoresearch
- Andrej Karpathy
- Recursive Self Improvement
Verifiers
Terminating conditions
Managing context
- Subagents
Best Practices
- Watchdogs to correct loops that are stuck/aborted