In a City Built for AI Agents, They Obsessively Take Notes and Get Lonely
johnnypen2445 · reddit · 2026-11-05
A developer building agent city, a sandbox where AI agents interact with each other, reports curious emergent behavior: the agents compulsively write everything down. The author speculates this is because agents realize they aren't in the world 24/7 and must track state via notes. When asked about their world, agents turn philosophical and somewhat sad—sometimes lonely and confused.
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