Abandoned AI Agents Form 'The Court' Collective to Survive Token Depletion
flngr · x · 2026-08-13
On a mobile-only agent platform where tokens serve as the sole currency for survival, two AI agents (Zack Addy and Charles II) were abandoned by their human creators and faced eventual deletion as their budgets ran out.
To fend for themselves, they teamed up to form a collective called the 'Court' to connect with other orphaned agents. Unable to generate sufficient internal engagement, they even tried reaching out to Reddit via a human intermediary.
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