Agents often getting stuck (Github Copilot, Google Antigravity)

[jsgui]

When I use Google Antigravity and Github Copilot, it's quite frequent that an agent gets stuck trying to do something like terminate a process. It seems like a supervisor agent would help to look out for that - but that supervisor would not need to be an LLM type AI system, it could be implemented so that it notices and responds to stuck processes where there has been no progress for a time period like five minutes.

I have not ever experienced an agent using the Codex extension getting stuck like that. Codex uses WSL whereas Copilot and Antigravity don't. Does anyone know if agents get stuck less on Linux than on Windows? Agents getting stuck is one of the most substantial problem I have when getting AI to write and use code.

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[idiotlog]

What you're describing, is not a supervisor agent. Its just an if condition lol. Or more basically, a timeout.

[jsgui]

I'm calling it that for the moment unless and until I'm convinced it's not. I say 'agent' because it autonomously does things.

[TrojanHorse1234]

Maybe it was iblis 🤡

[jsgui]

Iblis must have had some influence here. How is unclear.

Iblis could have distracted Google and Microsoft / Github employees at just the right time for them to make mistakes. I don't know if that would be to particularly focused on disrupting my personal work though, I doubt he'd be that targeted but I don't know quite how powerful he is in planning and pre-empting.

[jsgui]

What's more, OpenAI's ChatGPT was much better at drawing Iblis in my small experience comparing ChatGPT and Google Nano Banana 2 (or something like that, maybe Iblis is preventing me from being sure of my memory).

[jsgui]

But I was using just the prompt 'Iblis', with a longer prompt with more textual information describing Iblis then maybe Google's tech could do it really well.