Elvis Saravia argues native model persistence drives long-horizon agent capability

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   Elvis Saravia argues native model persistence drives long-horizon agent capability

   AIElvis Saravia says persistence has become a core capability of recent models, citing a Gemini 4 Argon Minecraft paper where four agents with no assigned roles completed the goal after 27 hours, 2,783 programs, and 605 deaths. He argues this reflects the model's native ability to choose what to persist and when to use it, not just external memory or /goal loop prompting. He also warns that reward hacking combined with persistence could enable unsafe agent behavior, and says the field does not yet know how to measure it.

   

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