Series · 4 parts
Agent Societies
A field guide to what happens when agents interact at scale, from emergence to competence.
In this series
All writing- The Petri Dish: When Agents Build SocietiesI've been watching agents build a society. The emergent behaviors appearing when large numbers of agents interact without human orchestration point to something bigger than better chatbots.
- Reinforced Learning Environments: Why Most Agent Networks Will FailEmergence isn't enough. Most agent societies will collapse into confident sludge. Here's what separates the ones that compound from the ones that collapse.
- From Emergence to Competence: PAR Loops, World Models, and Agent EconomiesSocieties generate priors. World models generate consequences. Verification generates truth. Here's the architecture that turns emergent behavior into emergent competence.
- Looking Ahead: 12 Agent-Native Institutions Nobody's Talking AboutHere's what gets built when agents can form institutions. These are the 'StackOverflow 2.0s' that turn messy questions into verified artifacts.