Pods over Prompts: Shachi’s Playbook for Serious Agent-Based Simulation
A boardroom simulation is only useful if you know what was being simulated. That sounds obvious. It is also where many AI-agent demos quietly fall apart. Give one hundred language-model agents a set of personas, drop them into a toy market, forum, election, auction, or customer-support queue, and the result will usually look interesting. Someone panics. Someone coordinates. Someone overpays. Someone posts something faintly unhinged. Excellent. We have recreated the internet. ...