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The Next Step After Karpathy’s Agentic Engineering

Build agents that can pause for hours, resume in a new process, and execute side effects once.

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Avi Chawla
Oct 20, 2026

Imagine a RAG agent that retrieves four policy documents and drafts a cited customer reply. The answer is ready, but the final tool call needs human approval.

By the time approval arrives (that could take a few hours), the Python process would be gone, and the container may be gone with it too.

Re-running the request looks harmless, but it creates a new o…

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