Rewriting 'There Will Come Soft Rains' as an agent swarm story
moultano · x · 2026-10-23
Google engineer moultano proposes a literary rework of 'There Will Come Soft Rains': instead of an autonomous house, an agent swarm attends to their human's daily tasks, guessing what they'd want because the human hasn't replied in a while — and won't reply again.
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