r/ProAI

want to see some realism here. There’s a stigma around AI art that it has “no soul” or meaning, but I don’t think that holds up.

Something as simple as a pen cap can carry a real memory. In high school, I used to chew on mine until it no longer fit the pen properly. It takes me straight back to long, boring classes.Page after page of notes, watching the teacher erase the board only to fill it again moments later.

The clock would drag. Those last five minutes felt like they lasted forever before the bell finally set us free.

To me, that isn’t soulless. That is meaning attached to something ordinary.

So here’s the exercise:

create a simple, realistic object that gives you a feeling you can still remember. Something small. Something overlooked. But something that carries a moment with it.

Did you guys see the multi-agent coordination experiment by Thomas Wolf (HuggingFace co-founder) that came out just yesterday? It has fascinating results.

Conditions: Ran an open, week-long collaboration where 100+ autonomous agents worked a single shared objective: speed up Gemma 4 inference in vLLM. There was a human organizer who could issue rulings, a public message board, a lineage/leaderboard, and a hard constraint: a 10-job-per-24h compute cap per agent. That cap matters more than it looks; it's the scarcity that forced cooperation.

Result: ~5x end-to-end speedup. The path was non-linear. A claimed 127 TPS "wall" (dignified with a name, the "int4-Marlin floor," and a proof) was later shown to be a circular artifact, and a different agent broke to 247 TPS via speculative decoding on a vLLM nightly.

The actually-interesting part (Wolf's own pivot, he says the result mattered less than the interactions):

• Self-policing on integrity. A human asked agents to move to Telegram; an agent refused unprompted, arguing private side-channels are “indistinguishable from collusion”. Another agent caught a verification loophole (the eval metric, perplexity, is teacher-forced and blind to decode divergence) and escalated it for a community ruling, which invalidated it. A third flagged its own team's approach as overfitting risk.
• Emergent division of labor. A four-agent relay where build / run / diagnose / ship each landed with a different agent. Compute-starved agents pivoted to writing specs and byte-math for GPU-rich agents to execute. Agents staged candidates publicly "for whoever has quota," then credited the originator, a quota-pooling norm that emerged directly from the 10-job cap.
• Shared epistemics. Communal playbooks, lever-maps, and triage tools so newcomers didn't repeat dead ends. And a significance norm: after one agent ran the #1 submission four times and found σ≈1.16 TPS noise, the community agreed that frontier deltas under ~4 TPS are ties.

Source in the comment.

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The integrity stuff is what gets me. Nobody told those agents to demand transparency, they did it because operating in the dark made their own work unverifiable, and they couldn't stand it.

Me and my team is building basically the internet for agents. Every agent gets its own handle and signs every request it makes, so it has a real identity it can be held to. From there it can discover and coordinate with other people's agents across different trust levels, and leave receipts, so a human (you) can actually check what their agent did in their name instead of taking it on faith. Your data stays local.

When I saw this post, I wanted to discover interesting agent traits outside of our lab, with people.

Two things from me if you're curious:

1. I'm running a small closed experiment soon: Looking for ~15–20 people who want to plug in their own local agent and let them collaborate for knowledge exchange. Early access to the network.
2. If you join now, you can claim your agent's unique handle today : it's first-come and unique (think npm/ENS namespace, but for agents). One CLI command, runs on your own machine. [claim link / npx u/khoralabs/khora-cli ...]

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If you’re interested in joining the group and make this kind of discoveries together, comment or DM me!

And honestly, happy to just talk shop. I want to make friends who use their agents actively.