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  1. phainopepla2 · · focus · HN ↗
    What are people using these infinitely-running agents for?
    1. rubslopes · · focus · HN ↗
      one example: I have several cron jobs that monitor different projects and notify me via my claw agent in Telegram. Whenever it sends me a message, I can ask it to address the issue within the same conversation.
    2. shepherdjerred · · focus · HN ↗
      I don’t really understand the infinitely running case, but I do have schedule agents to do things like open PRs when some events happen, or triage alerts every day
      1. miki123211 · · focus · HN ↗
        Something I've had Chat GPT do for a while was writing "Daily Presidential Briefings" for me. Basically non-clickbait, well-summarized, priority-ordered news.
    3. plaguuuuuu · · focus · HN ↗
      The extremely basic use case is that I'm doing something at work and it's not finished yet when I leave the office.

      Or my laptop crashes, ugh.

      Yes, if I could ssh into a random server it'd be fine. But I can't.

    4. lukebuehler · · focus · HN ↗
      Not infinitely, but 6-12 hour long individual runs: complex analysis in enterprise across many data sources. Basically, long running investigations that touch databases, many files, apps via computer use, and so on.
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