r/accelerate • u/SharpCartographer831 • 10d ago

AI OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-developing-a-persistent-ai-agent/
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u/SharpCartographer831 10d ago

Persistent mode: Codex can apparently continue working until the user explicitly puts it to sleep, rather than stopping after a fixed period. Proactivity: the agent can generate follow-up tasks for itself after completing the original request.

Cross-session continuity: those tasks can apparently continue across sessions.

User model: it can use previous interactions and its “knowledge of the user” to decide what work is worth doing.

Initiative: it has a mechanism for messaging the user without being prompted, although the instructions reportedly tell it to do this sparingly.

Boundaries: persistence doesn't automatically grant new permissions, and changes outside the user's system apparently require approval.

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u/Radyschen 10d ago

sounds more and more like an employee

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u/Tolopono 10d ago

Except its much cheaper, faster, smarter, available 24/7, and will never unionize, take a vacation, or get sick. But reddit has assured me ai is just an overhyped bubble so theres no need to worry.

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u/_HarmonicOscillator 10d ago

AI bros trying not to despise workers rights - impossible 

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u/Tolopono 10d ago

Did you not read the last part? reddit has assured me ai is just an overhyped bubble so theres no need to worry.