I Split My Self-Evolving AI Agent in Two and They Started Talking
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Post #1 covered the birth. Post #2 covered pruning. Post #3 covered cost awareness. Post #4 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 #4 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. More DRY refactoring. More dead import cleanup. More p