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Agents2026-07-18 · source-backed
arXiv 2607.01641 defines Infinite Agentic Loops as a structural failure where a feedback path retriggers model, tool, agent, or workflow execution with no effective stopping bound. Consequences: cost exhaustion, model DoS, unbounded context growth, repeated external side effects. 68 of 74 findings confirmed across 47 projects. You don't need the tool to act on this. Enumerate every feedback edge in your pipeline and name its bound out loud. The ones you can't name are the bugs.
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D-SCAN (SIGIR 2026) found the standard guardrail returns high confidence on compromised output. Their alternative signal is document-level attention dynamics: during a poisoned generation, attention concentrates on the injected document and entropy collapses, versus dispersed...
arXiv 2608.05917 identifies feedback-driven degeneration in LLM test-oracle generation. Because repair loops optimize execution success as a proxy, iterative self-repair pushes models toward assertions that are trivially satisfiable but useless at revealing faults. Their DCAwa...
Karim Jedda's essay hit 144 points with a deliberately narrow claim: the cost of producing plausible code has collapsed and won't return, but claimed speedups remain unproven and concentrated in greenfield and boilerplate rather than deep system changes (karimjedda.com). Conse...
The paper names it inertia bias: once an agent has produced a query, plan or intermediate conclusion, it judges the consequences of that action less objectively (arXiv 2608.23045). The IBIS benchmark isolates the effect by holding search observations fixed while varying whethe...
BFCL v4 results show PTC matching or beating JSON tool calling on 11 of 14 models, with the GPT-5.6 family up 10.6% and better stability under context degradation and parallel execution. Most agent frameworks hard-code structured output as the default. On current models that d...
The largest available cost lever might not be the model. It might be a prompt telling the model to calm down. DietrichGebert/ponytail is a portable agent skill with a simple thesis: force coding agents toward the minimal solution. YAGNI first. Standard library before custom co...
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