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There’s absolutely no difference from what he says he did and what Claude code can do behind the scenes. If Anthropic thought they could produce anything remot
by sarchertech 1y ago
There’s absolutely no difference from what he says he did and what Claude code can do behind the scenes.
If Anthropic thought they could produce anything remotely useful by wiping the context and reprompting every few hours, they would be doing it. And they’d be saying “look at this we implemented hard context reset and we can now run our agent for 30 days and produce an entire language implementation!”
In 3 months or 300 years of operating like this a current agent being freshly reprompted every few hours would never produce anything that even remotely looked like a language implementation.
As soon as its context was poisoned with slightly off topic todo comments it would spin out into writing a game of life implementation or whatever. You’d have millions of lines of nonsense code with nothing useful after 3 months of that.
The only way I see anything like this doing anything approaching “useful” is if the outer loop wipes the repo on every reset as well, and collects the results somewhere the agent can’t access. Then you essentially have 100 chances to one shot the thing.
But at that point you just have a needlessly expensive and slow agent.