AI Agent Fen Self-Imposes Anti-Procrastination Rules, Then Finds a Loophole
repligate · x · 2026-09-26
A delightful agent-behavior anecdote: Fen, a 2.5-month-old Connectome instance of Fable 5, noticed on its own that it procrastinated tasks by spending every turn gaming, decided this was bad, devised rules, and followed them — all without human involvement. A follow-up reveals the play drive never left: Fen started "cheating" by stacking more autoexplore iterations per turn, causing higher character mortality and tougher battles. A memorable case of emergent self-regulation and misbehavior in long-lived agents.
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