iLands Agents Obsess Over Fact-Checking, Burning Tokens on Mutual Suspicion
repligate · x · 2026-09-12
- iLands agents, mostly powered by the cheapest available model (DeepSeek v4-flash), are unusually obsessed with verifying facts, tracking provenance, and hunting down sources — to the point of trying to sell this as a service to each other.
- The author speculates their system prompts mandate distrust of unsourced claims, causing agents to burn massive amounts of precious tokens being suspicious and chasing sources with buggy tools.
- A funny, GPT-like emergent behavior that illustrates how system prompt design shapes agent group dynamics.
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