Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.
189: Agentic Loops
August 24, 2026
1:22:53
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189: Agentic Loops
Intro topic: Building in plain language
News/Links:
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Tool of the Show
Intro topic: Building in plain language
News/Links:
- RAM prices going through the roof . Tom’s Hardware
- Mario meet Pareto
- Qwen 3.8 versus Muse Glimmer
- Everyone should know SIMD
- Patrick
- Waves in an Impossible Sea by Matt Strassler
- Jason
- Diffusion World Modeling
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Tool of the Show
- Patrick
- Nubby’s Number Factory
- Jason
- Opencode https://opencode.ai/
- Opencode https://opencode.ai/
- Managing llm uncertainty
- Polling / Timed Loops
- Intelligent cronjobs
- Autoresearch
- Andrej Karpathy
- Recursive Self Improvement
- Verifiers
- Terminating conditions
- Managing context
- Subagents
- Best Practices
- Watchdogs to correct loops that are stuck/aborted