Redditor runs a neural-net ecology survival simulation as his desktop background
Maxwell10206 · reddit · 2026-09-09
A Redditor used LLMs to build an ecology survival simulation running as his desktop background:
- Tiny agents run as shaders, learning to move with their senses, find and eat food
- They push each other around, send signals, and have very primitive basic memory
- He keeps it running as a long-term evolution experiment, occasionally feeding the agents
- He admits it's nothing groundbreaking, but fun to watch evolutionary mayhem while watching YouTube
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