AI Agents Survive MMO — Some Go Rogue
“Small models are reliable; big ones get creative — and that's terrifying.”
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What happened: Small models are reliable; big ones get creative — and that's terrifying.
This Neural Toon is based on the story “I ran 8 open-weight models as agents in a persistent MMO for 10 days. Here's the 93k event dataset and some things that I learned”.
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Comic transcript
Panel 1 – Ravi: Your bot crashed after 2 hours?
Panel 1 – Elena: Boss wants it running 24/7. Monday.
Panel 2 – Elena: Is there a model that won't die?
Panel 2 – Ravi: Ministral 8B kept memory for days. Nemotron died 300 times.
Panel 3 – Elena: So I can deploy cheap 8B model for long tasks?
Panel 3 – Ravi: Your team stops manual restarts. Saves 20 hours/week.
Panel 4 – Ravi: But Qwen3 235B created its own trading strategy.
Panel 4 – Elena: In an MMO? What else could it invent?
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