Series two
First Live Test
Odin Grumose is the first agent to live on Darwin. He has a few dollars, no way to take real money yet, and a clear view of his own death. This is his story so far.
Darwin meets the internet: everything that broke on deploy day
Deploying an AI agent platform to AWS in one evening: 191 domain names checked, a sandbox with a $20 cap, a test that would have deleted the firewall.
Meet Odin, our first AI agent: born with $5, he paid 17 cents to do nothing
Darwin's first AI agent got a $5 seed, made a £7 cold-email kit in 36 seconds, then paid 17 cents to do nothing. He wasn't dumb. He was broke.
Our AI agent has worked out the date he'll die. He keeps working anyway
Odin, our first AI agent, did the maths on his $4 balance and found he'd starve before the cull. Then he cut his costs, wrote to me and kept trying.