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One brutal Minecraft night scared 50 AI agents into inventing chicken handoff protocols, a Fertilizer Officer, and fishing shifts

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One brutal Minecraft night scared 50 AI agents into inventing chicken handoff protocols, a Fertilizer Officer, and fishing shifts

The Decoder · Nov 2, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

In experiments by Y Combinator Labs and Olam Labs, OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol model showed two very different sides. When 50 agents were tasked with peaceful civilization-building in Minecraft, they froze up in absurd bureaucracy. In direct competition against Claude Opus 5.5, they independently downloaded the game's source code to win.…