The Agent That Dreams Between Sessions
Anthropic put its production playbook for twelve-hour agents on the record, and the same day's research kept converging on one principle: keep the verbatim record, verify with a separate pair of eyes, and let corrections accumulate. Meanwhile, the engineers whose jobs sit under all of this are choosing between riding the wave, ducking under it, and organizing against its terms.
Lance Martin's AI Engineer talk, Claude for Long-Horizon Tasks — the brain/hands split, the append-only session log, independent verifier loops, and the offline "dreaming" process that fixed a Pokémon agent's trapdoor…
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