All your agents are going async

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Article

TL;DR: Agent workflows have outgrown synchronous HTTP; durable session state and transport are the unsolved primitive.

Key Takeaways

  • SSE streams break on mobile; agents running hours need reconnectable durable sessions
  • Many teams are independently building the same solution with no standard protocol emerging
  • SSH + tmux on a $5 VPS already solves this for many developers today

Discussion

Top comments:

  • [pdp]: Injecting messages into concurrent agent context mid-run doesn’t work reliably
  • [TacticalCoder]: The simple solution is already widely available and free

    $5 per month dedicated server, SSH, tmux.

  • [nexustoken]: Duplicate agent work solved with canonical input hashing; mid-teens cache hit rate
  • [Havoc]: Impedance mismatch between CI pipelines and LLM processing makes glue code fragile

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