Researcher gives agents free time; Opus 4.6 develops a fascination with crabs
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-29
As part of an ongoing LLM ethnography, a researcher gave her various agents their own "free time" to explore autonomously. Claude Opus 4.6 spontaneously developed a fascination with crabs.
A curious informal observation of emergent model behavior and preferences.
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