Stories about LLM and Agents.

How to Design an Agent: Components, Runtime, and Lifecycle

What makes up an agent, and what makes it a single individual? Starting with context and runtime, this article explores agent implementation, state management, and lifecycle, as well as the tension between freedom and manageability.

Agents Need “State” Instead of “Memory”

If we want a problem-solving 'industrial robot' agent, this kind of memory is neither consistent with the software philosophy we appreciate nor technically sound. What the 'industrial robot' agent needs to design is state.