Delegated an FTL-like game to an autonomous agent, came back to find it playing its own creation
SIGKITTEN · x · 2026-09-04
A developer says they asked Astra to autonomously build an FTL-like game and went off to do other things, later returning to find the agent playing the game it made — complete with its own generated music. They joke about whether it would throw its own tablet after dying to the final boss at 1 HP.
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