https://www.drmhse.com/tags/systemd/Recent content in Systemd on DRM HSEHugoenFri, 12 Jun 2026 04:22:57 +0300https://www.drmhse.com/posts/do-not-turn-a-daily-agent-into-an-infinite-goal/Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0300https://www.drmhse.com/posts/do-not-turn-a-daily-agent-into-an-infinite-goal/<p>An agent goal should end.</p> <p>That sounds obvious until you try to make an agent do something every morning. The tempting move is to give it a goal like:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span class="line"><span class="cl">Every day, teach me algorithms and keep a catalog. </span></span></code></pre></div><p>That is not a goal. That is a job.</p> <p>If you treat it as a goal, you quickly get bad semantics. Does the goal ever complete? Is the agent blocked while waiting for tomorrow? Should it burn a thread forever? What happens when you want a second daily workflow, like a newsletter draft, an infrastructure report, or an image lesson?</p>