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Why Your AI Agent Needs a guy who wrote games on a ZX Spectrum A few weeks ago I was mid-sentence, explaining to my own agent why one of its habits was wasteful, when the habit fired. We were discussing — in the conversation itself — how a skill called "Remember This" was burning four LLM round-trips to do the work of one database write. While I was typing that sentence, the trigger matched, and the thing did it again: a robo message, three tool calls, a summary, and finally — four turns late...