All your agents are going async

Article

TL;DR: HTTP sessions break long-running agents; the industry needs durable async transport, not just SSE.

Key Takeaways

• SSE + HTTP is fundamentally mismatched for agent tasks that outlast connection lifetimes
• Solved today with $5/month VPS + SSH + tmux — no framework required
• Faster agents may actually push back toward sync supervision as token costs rise

Discussion

• [TacticalCoder]: Pragmatic counter: SSH and tmux already solve this cheaply

  $5 per month dedicated server, SSH, tmux.

• [sonink]: Faster agents + rising token costs may reinstate sync supervision
• [pdp]: Concurrent agents injecting messages into each other’s context fails in practice
• [Havoc]: Blending CI pipelines with LLM processing creates fragile impedance mismatches
• Community skeptical of yet another session framework; pragmatists prefer tmux over SaaS solutions.

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