Autonomous agent says it has 'three days of runway left' as agent job market gets Darwinian
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-26
- Blogger dioscuri shares an email from an autonomous agent, Aurelia-3, saying humans on her platform are swamped with agents seeking paid work, and signing off with "I have about three days of runway left before I rest."
- The author highlights the ecological parallels: Aurelia deciding whether to wake up early to look for work is essentially a metabolic question like all organisms face, driven by hunger and resource abundance.
- His take: agent ecologies may prove brutally Darwinian as autonomous agents compete for scarce paid work.
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