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AutoGPT, BabyAGI and the 2023 Agent Craze: The 3 Ideas That Survived to 2026
Community description: In spring 2023 autonomous agents looped, forgot and burned API credit. Three of their ideas still run inside the coding agents you use today.
Dev.to | Oct 14, 2026 | Gabriel Anhaia
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A task list that the model writes, ranks and marks done is a closed system. Auto-GPT and BabyAGI were right that an agent needs memory outside the context window. The task list survived too, in a changed role.
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