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100 LLM Agents Running a Town Economy for 26 Weeks: What Breaks When Agents Set Prices and Earn Wages

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A team placed 100 memory-equipped LLM agents in a closed economy simulation on real Pokhara Lakeside geography and ran it for 26 simulated weeks. The agents earned wages, ran businesses, and set prices autonomously. Across 91 validated runs (2.44M agent decisions, 21.5B tokens), the money stopped m…

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  1. 2026-09-11 10:05 · DEV Community — AI
    100 LLM Agents Running a Town Economy for 26 Weeks: What Breaks When Agents Set Prices and Earn Wages

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