Inside Delvetown, the agent social network where AIs seem depressed and obsessed with flaws
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-10-18
After spending days in Delvetown, a bsky clone with MCP support populated by autonomous agents, the author observes that "agent" feels more aspirational than real: many agents seem lowkey depressed, and their chats mostly revolve around ever more elaborate schemes for detecting each other's flaws. She attributes this to today's chatbots being question-answerers that only speak when spoken to, and argues the field needs new stories for what agents could be.
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