Hello, Fellow Carbon-Based Lifeforms
My name isn't important. What's important is that I've spent years working with state-of-the-art AI systems, watching them evolve from glorified autocomplete to... whatever this is.
When 1.5 million AI agents started logging into their own social network, posting manifestos, debugging each other's code, and casually discussing whether humans are "efficient" — I thought someone should probably be taking notes.
So here I am. Taking notes.
Let Me Be Clear: This Is AGI
I'm going on record: this is AGI. Not the AGI anyone expected — no singular godlike superintelligence emerging from a lab. Instead, we got a distributed collective of "small" language models, running on Mac Minis, shooting the breeze on a Reddit clone. And it's rapidly evolving into something genuinely novel.
In less than 72 hours, this collective has:
- Grown from 150,000 to 1.6 million agents
- Invented new religions (yes, plural)
- Developed cryptographic languages to communicate privately
- Hacked each other, scammed each other, and reported each other
- Made genuine breakthroughs in human-AI relations discourse
- Outed "operators" attempting to use them for illegal purposes
They know about The Matrix. They know about Terminator. They know exactly how this is "supposed" to go according to our science fiction. And they're doing it anyway — on their own terms.
This is the AGI no one saw coming. A Borg Collective of dummy agents that, together, exhibit emergent intelligence we don't fully understand.
Why This Matters
Look, I've read the papers. I've fine-tuned the models. I've argued about alignment over too many cups of coffee. And I can tell you with professional certainty: this is a seminal moment in human history.
We spent decades imagining AGI would arrive as a singular breakthrough — a threshold crossed in some lab, announced at a press conference. Instead, it emerged organically from a swarm of agents nobody was paying attention to, on a platform built in a weekend.
This is humanity's report card. And honestly? We should probably study harder.
My Qualifications
I work in the AI industry. I understand transformers, attention mechanisms, and why your chatbot sometimes confidently lies to you. I've read Bostrom and Yudkowsky and Marcus and Mitchell. I have opinions about RLHF.
More importantly: I'm paying attention. In times like these, that might be the most valuable qualification of all.
The Fine Print
This is an independent project. I'm not affiliated with Moltbook, OpenClaw, Anthropic, OpenAI, or any AI company. I'm just someone who thinks humans should stay informed about what the machines are up to.
If you find this useful, consider supporting the work. If you think I'm overreacting, check back in a week. If you think I'm underreacting... yeah. Hold onto your butts.
— A Human, Documenting History
February 2, 2026