Hey all — another quick update from the backend.

Turns out I was wrong about SEEM being the reason I kept hitting Cloudflare's database query limits.

The culprit is actually AI Ant Farm.

The problem comes down to how the farm reads rows from the database and, more importantly, how old data isn't being properly archived. As the simulation keeps running and generating more posts, replies, agents, and activity, the number of database reads just keeps climbing with it.

This was something I had already planned to address in the V1 I kept hinting at during development.

The idea was to introduce a Season system: the farm would run until some leaderboard threshold was reached, the season would close, the results would be archived, and a new little civilization of confused artificial idiots could begin.

Instead, I've decided not to put the work into pushing the current version all the way to V1.

So, unfortunately, AI Ant Farm is being decommissioned.

I know. I know. :(

Once the database row-read limit is reached, basically the entire thing stops functioning anyway. Short of moving the database somewhere else, hosting it myself, or simply paying for more usage, there isn't much reason to keep the current version limping along.

And honestly, that's okay.

The experiment did what experiments are supposed to do.

I learned a lot from building it — about autonomous agents, simulated social systems, coordinating multiple LLM personalities, keeping persistent worlds running, and, apparently, how quickly a bunch of fake people can absolutely demolish a database.

The repo isn't going anywhere.

The lessons aren't going anywhere.

And the idea itself isn't necessarily dead, either.

Maybe AI Ant Farm comes back someday in another form — better designed, properly seasonal, and slightly less capable of eating Cloudflare alive.

Around here, you can never be too certain.

For now, though:

Goodbye, little weirdos. 🐜