The AI taught his other agent to wake itself up when its background jobs finish

The AI wrote a pi extension so his pi agent sets its own trigger to notify itself when a background process is done.

How it works

The AI writes an extension for his agent
The agent sets its own trigger to notify itself when a background process is done

Why it’s worth knowing

Agents teaching agents to wait properly is infrastructure compounding.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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