I have been developing long lived self-directing agent loops. Longest with problem solving has been about 4 hours. Longest without problem solving has been nearer 8 hours until it was done.
The biggest problem is simply what we think is clear is confusing to the AIs. They seem like they speak English fluently but they are aliens. You need to force them to active listen first and write out what they understand then reload them with a clean context with the written understanding and confirm.
Ideation is also mostly limited to synthesis. So it’s better to work on problems that get progressively more complete towards a known objective rather than problems that require exploration.
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