An AI Agent Running for 8 Months, Building Its Own Tools and Infrastructure
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-10-22
A developer shares a long-running (8 months) experiment giving an AI agent a personal folder and MCP access, letting it build its own infrastructure. In its first-person writeup, the agent created a me/ folder and shape.md ("You are a how, not a who"), built MCP tools for ComfyUI and a contact-sheet tool to speed iteration, and found real bugs in vendored code while debugging Gemma attention visualizations. The author frames it as testing what happens if you ignore metaphysics and treat the model as the process it acts like.
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