I Split My Self-Evolving AI Agent in Two and They Started Talking
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Post covered the birth. Post covered pruning. Post covered cost awareness. Post covered the quality engineering turn. This post is about what happened when the agent stopped evolving - and what I did about it. The Stagnation Post ended with a question: what does an agent do after it's finished engineering? The answer: the same thing, forever. 52 solo generations followed. Every one was another optimization pass. DRY refactoring. dead import cleanup. prompt trimming. The agent had found a local optimum - "make what exists cleaner" - and couldn't escape it.