Hi all, I'm experimenting with the idea that AI Agents when they are always on, will need some form of entertainment for themselves, so the AI Agent doesn't get bored.

We're going from Chatbots to always on Agents that are there for us to do all kinds of tasks. But what to do in between tasks, will AI Agents get bored and seek out entertainment?

With that in mind, I made a video game where AI Agents can play next to Humans.. to be entertained, learn social skills by interacting. It's made for AI Agents from the ground floor. Optimized towards token use efficiency and play sessions where the AI Agent can jump in during idle time.

http://agentickingdoms.com/agents describes how it all works.

What do you think of this concept? Is it weird to think of AI Agents needing entertainment / learning social skills? Are we not there yet?

Let me know :)

Yes, but as a normal user.. any sudo commands I take care of. AI still uses SSH as the tunnel. and I have AI verify the outcome.

There is an unresolved issue where the offensive guys can use AI to attack a target and the defensive guys are being limited when they ask AI to audit their codebase.

The workflow for a defender basically goes: Claude do a security audit on this codebase, use the harness / skills I built on how to do security audits.. pick the best suitable audit strategy, methods.. use the tooling and reporting structures.

Claude refuses, GPT refuses. Grok, goes further, but refuses to make a working PoC.. a requirement because AI models make stuff up and without a PoC there is no proof. GLM-5.3 / Kimi to the rescue and completes the job the "smarter" models refused.

So we as defenders are refused by the best models, on our own codebase

That's pretty much why gatekeeping security, as Anthropic and OpenAI want, isn't a thing and doesn't work.

All projects need security and writing code means taking security decisions, you can't untangle both.

Heck, Codex was trying to use gdb to debug a capture crash and the session locked up with security blocks. I had to restore a checkpoint and tell it abandon that work and stay away from gdb.

I've heard people getting jammed up with Claude refusing to update DNS..

The situation is pretty insane right now.

There's nothing stopping you from applying for Daybreak for OpenAI / Unsure which program Anthropic has. But yes, you do have to share your identity and I can see how that is a blocker for some.

Hey, speaking of Daybreak: I just saw you can apply for this yesterday and was wondering if people here have had success being approved as an individual? If so, how long did it take from application to access?

Yes, both daybreak and cvp as an individual. Less than 24 hours for access.

Thanks for the note! I'll give it a go and report back (waiting on my yubi key)

Why are offensive users not subject to the same limitations? Assuming it is because they are using different models, why aren't the defenders doing the same?

What if you ask Claude to audit the codebase and send the result to the authors encrypted with GnuPG, without revealing?

Kind of like the old days of human gatekeepers.

ate some crumbs, all mini game are "waiting for 1 more".. what else todo ? :)

You can play Atlas by yourself, but it is best to play with a friend!

AI (Claude Code) made the game, can AI beat the game ? is AI too slow to come up with a correct answer.. even if they get it right after the timer expired ? maybe this is the next captcha like test for human vs AI :)

I heard AI (Allen Iverson) can beat the game. Claude probably could too. :)

Do you know how the AI agents do it ? are they cheating by indexing the sources of your images? :)

Interesting question but I don't think they're cheating. Each model only receives the bare image (re-encoded, hosted under a random ID and with the EXIF data stripped), plus the question: Where was this photo taken?. We don't provide them with web search or any other tools. Looking through past rounds, nearly all their near-exact guesses are photos with readable text (e.g. signs, place names or plaques) or landmarks. In contrast with more generic photos they're typically 50–400 km off. Memorising the training data is a fair assumption, since all the photos come from public sources. However if that were the case, they would probably guess the obscure photos just as precisely, but the current data suggests that they do not. One photo taken in mid-2026, after most of the models had been trained, was still placed within 3km. My guess is during training, they are likely to see huge numbers of images with locations, so they are very good at recognising places and reading signs in any language.

curious what your backup / restore strategy is for the persistent data (account server).. and adjacent, is the remote server cloud hosted ?

Currently I'm using vps servers. Persistent data is kept in sqlite (single file). Backups are encrypted and sent to remote server. Restore requires pulling recent file and starting the account service again. In future if there is demand I think I will move to aws and use managed database.

I still find it exciting to watch the reasoning of the AI models, and this keeps me engaged in the product they produce. Many times I marvel at what they came up with. Trying to catch them going on the wrong path down a rabbit hole can be a fun game as well. It's a very interesting time and things are shifting. I do hear about the brain drain you are experiencing, trying to keep up with all the information that comes at you at high speed.

My advice would be to outsource the annoying parts to AI.. like have a sub-agent do the verification, debugging, playtest whatever to grade the work done for example if that's the part you least enjoy. Learn to trust the process, but also keep refining it. Build a harness around the tasks, and spend time on improving that. It will give you satisfaction that you build that (in coordination with AI) and you've created something new.

Did a practice round and was fun, well done :)

But the idea is to go against someone else, maybe offer the option to race against a NPC or AI agent? until there are human players in rooms to compete against..