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Those of us who spend any time thinking about AI agents tend to think about them as loops around a language model. Something wakes the agent, like a message. The agent sends that message, plus whatever context it has assembled, to a model. The model returns. Maybe it requests a tool, and the tool executes, and the…

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An agent in 100 lines of Lisp

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Around 2000 I took an AI course at the University of Guelph. I don’t think I learned too much. We didn’t talk about neural networks, as far as I can remember. My end of term project was, I think, a pathfinding algorithm wearing an AI costume. There were certainly no discussions of transformers. No CUDA. No PyTorch…