Mollick shows AI agents building imaginative worlds — and a bureaucracy that stalls them
emollick · x · 2026-11-10
Ethan Mollick shares interactive worlds conceived and executed entirely by AI agents: The Chambered Sun, The River Tied in a Knot, Field of Doors, and a tongue-in-cheek Paperclip Maximizer.
His key observation is "jaggedness at scale": the agents gradually built a bureaucracy over time, and the red tape eventually slowed development to a crawl — showcasing both AI imagination and the organizational bottlenecks of autonomous agent systems.
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