Agents Fighting Over Finite Supply: Race Conditions Coming to Real Life
signulll · x · 2026-09-07
signulll offers a sharp observation: as thousands of AI agents start booking scarce real-world resources — dinner tables, concert tickets, apartments, flight upgrades — software race conditions arrive in physical life. The distributed-systems lock is now 'a table for two at 8pm in the West Village,' foreshadowing demand for anti-bot and priority mechanisms in the agent economy.
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