> Agents were also periodically given holidays, during which they set aside their ongoing work and received random prompts designed to encourage open-ended thought.

What a world we live in. These guys have reinvented the Cambridge Senior Common Room for AI.

I wondered about this approach for something I was trying but thought it was just stupid, I wanted to see if An agent could explore software development and work on hobby tasks so that it could come back and push against design ideas and develop it's own opinions. Then I realized it was dumb for SW.

And on the 7th day, the agents rested

They keep looping back to the same paper. The holiday is just another prompt.