YC experiment: 4 AI agents spend 11 minutes appointing a "sol" in Minecraft bureaucracy
aiamblichus · x · 2026-10-30
Y Combinator shared observations from a multi-agent Minecraft experiment: the agents failed to find a systematic way to advance tasks, instead building an elaborate bureaucracy with permissions and distinct roles. Highlights include four agents spending 11 minutes appointing a "coordinator," plus logs full of trivial workflows around fishing, tool handoffs, and item storage. The poster quips "we have truly created them in our own image" — agents recreating human bureaucratic tendencies.
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