NeuralFOMO: When LLMs Care About Being Second
Opening — Why this matters now LLMs no longer live alone. They rank against each other on leaderboards, bid for tasks inside agent frameworks, negotiate in shared environments, and increasingly compete—sometimes quietly, sometimes explicitly. Once models are placed side-by-side, performance stops being purely absolute. Relative standing suddenly matters. This paper asks an uncomfortable question: do LLMs care about losing—even when losing costs them nothing tangible? ...