Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What the loop actually does, and what you are outsourcing Most agent architecture arguments are conducted at the wrong altitude. Teams debate frameworks and model providers, and skip the one structural decision that determines almost everything downstream: who owns the loop? There are three answers. Your own application code owns it, a provider owns it and runs it on their servers, or you own the code and run it on infrastructure you control. Every product in this market is a variation on one of those three, and the choice quietly fixes your residency posture, your recovery story, your observability ceiling and your exit cost for the next two years. So it is worth being precise about what the loop is. Strip away the branding and an agent loop performs six jobs, over and over, until the…
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