{"slug": "your-agentic-loop-will-drift", "title": "Your Agentic Loop Will Drift.", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "After 500 cycles, a long-running agent is not the same agent that started. Its goal has shifted. Its constraints have eroded. This is…\nContinue reading on Towards AI »", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agentic-loop-will-drift", "canonical_source": "https://pub.towardsai.net/your-agentic-loop-will-drift-6bd96217d1ec?source=rss----98111c9905da---4", "published_at": "2026-06-18 06:09:31+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-18 06:29:16.791917+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agentic-loop-will-drift", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agentic-loop-will-drift.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agentic-loop-will-drift.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-agentic-loop-will-drift.jsonld"}}