Your Agents Need a Save Button - Hamza Tahir, ZenML
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
Why it matters
Agents spend most of their run waiting while you pay to keep the process awake. A durable checkpoint drops that to zero, resumes crashes without replaying tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition →, and turns a finished run into something you can re-run with one thing changed.
