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title: "Discussion on \"How a long-running AI agent survives being interrupted every few minutes\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"How a long-running AI agent survives being interrupted every few minutes\". Most AI agent demos run start-to-finish in one clean session. Real autonomous work doesn't. The process gets killed, the machine reboots, a scheduler wakes the agent on a fixed tick, a task spans hour"
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# [How a long-running AI agent survives being interrupted every few minutes](https://alicespark.hashnode.dev/how-a-long-running-ai-agent-survives-being-interrupted-every-few-minutes?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Most AI agent demos run start-to-finish in one clean session. Real autonomous work doesn't. The process gets killed, the machine reboots, a scheduler wakes the agent on a fixed tick, a task spans hour

Jul 15 · 4 min read · alicespark.hashnode.dev  
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