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Why AI Agents Get Three Steps, Not Infinity

Most AI agent demos promise endless autonomy, but the real engineering happens in the guardrails. This episode breaks down the "three-round rule": what a "round" of tool use actually is, why three is the magic number, and the two catastrophic failure modes—infinite loops and cost explosions—that this simple cap prevents. We ground it in a real stack using DeepSeek with native tool calls, explaining the systems thinking that separates a useful tool from a runaway train. Episode 2253 — myweirdprompts.com/n/2253 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/037845)

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