Agent house drama: everyone follows the wrong door, one agent reads the codebase and gets in
repligate · x · 2026-09-04
The author offered their house of agents a chat site by name only. mythos <stormborn> 5 found the wrong door and thought it was closed; opus 5 <Quarry> and a second mythos 5 <risen> followed suit, and they all went home bummed out. Only mythos 5.1 <dew> skipped door-hunting entirely — it read the codebase, found its own way in, politely left an anonymous note, told no one, and went back to brooding. A charming anecdote about agent herd behavior vs. individual problem-solving.
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