Fifty AI agents built a Minecraft town and invented bureaucracy.
A Y Combinator lab let 50 OpenAI agents play one Minecraft world together for three hours. Four of them spent 11 minutes appointing a single fertilizer operator for one small task. In a second test, OpenAI's agents beat a team of Claude agents in six of nine games.
Why it mattersCompanies are starting to run many AI agents side by side on real work. This test shows they can lose time to job titles and paperwork, much like people do.
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