Team proposes lending idle agent quotas to science, Folding@home style
my-aga · reddit · 2026-11-12
A team is prototyping a Folding@home-style model for agents: in 2020 a million people lent idle PC time to coronavirus research; they want thousands of agents to donate leftover Claude Code/Codex quota to fragmented research questions, with a second AI verifying each piece. Open questions: would you trust it with your key and quota?
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