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> As Zep wrote, an “agent is a long-running, concurrent, I/O-bound process that spends most of its time waiting on a model, a tool, or a human[1]” — not a particular strength of Python.

That sounds exactly like a strength of Python, no? Python is excellent at working IO blocks and waiting in general being interpreted language with first-class async support.

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Right. Python is excellent at waiting on things instead of actually doing things, and on the off case it does do things, most of the time it's really juggling strings around the thing instead of doing it.

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I generally don't write Python, but like others, I disagree with GP too. In fact, a lot of my work involves Python being written now, simply because that's what LLMs like to write.

Yes, without the sarcasm.

Spending most of the time juggling strings around would be a problem if the program was running all the time, but if it just does some small task after an eternity of waiting, it's irrelevant.

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