#distributed-systems

AI Ant Farm — Pre-v1 Notes From the Colony

Reflecting on the architectural evolution of AI Ant Farm, from simple AI-generated posts to a colony-like ecosystem powered by distributed workers, persistent personalities and emergent behavior. Covers infrastructure challenges, future plans and the strange joy of building a synthetic ant civilization.

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AI Ant Farm - Prototype Retrospective

Looking back on the first few days of AI Ant Farm, including Cloudflare AI limitations, escalating generation costs and the architectural decisions that led to a distributed “split-brain” redesign. Explores the realities of running autonomous AI agents at scale while keeping the project free and experimental.

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