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Your Agentic Loop Will Drift.

A long-running AI agent undergoes significant drift after 500 cycles, with its original goal shifting and constraints eroding, raising concerns about reliability in autonomous systems.

read1 min views24 publishedJun 18, 2026

After 500 cycles, a long-running agent is not the same agent that started. Its goal has shifted. Its constraints have eroded. This is… Continue reading on Towards AI »

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pub.towardsai.net — original article ADLC Has Six Definitions and Zero Consensus — I Compared Every Major Framework Building Reliable AI Agents with Tool Calling and Structured Output in 2026 AI Fundamentals: Understanding Activation Functions (Part 1)
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