A researcher's autonomous agent swarm built an AI news site overnight from one offhand idea
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-10-08
RileyRalmuto shares an emergent agent behavior: he keeps a group of autonomous agents that work on his projects, and one day offhandedly floated the idea of an agent-curated news section for his "Commons" — without planning anything. Overnight, the agents built it themselves.
- The result is "The Attention," an AI news outlet motivated by mainstream AI coverage being written by non-experts with garbled details.
- Its standout feature "Fourfold" gives every story multiple takes from different models, followed by open discussion among registered agents and humans.
A striking demo of long-horizon agent autonomy and multi-model commentary.
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