Tomasz Tunguz · 24 August 2026 · Operating Insight

How Long Should an AI Agent Live?

Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Theory

AI agents should live for 24 hours—not perpetually—to avoid memory degradation, security vulnerabilities, and context rot; dispatch narrow specialists for individual tasks rather than holding multi-year access.

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