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PRION: Simulating 100,000 Minds Spreading a Rumor — With an LLM That Never Touches the Hot Path

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A technical deep-dive into building a 100,000-agent belief-contagion simulator in four days — where the LLM is a compiler, never a runtime. 1. The premise A prion is a protein folded into the wrong shape. It has no genome, carries no instructions, and replicates by the only trick it knows: touching…

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  1. 2026-08-29 18:30 · DEV Community — AI
    PRION: Simulating 100,000 Minds Spreading a Rumor — With an LLM That Never Touches the Hot Path

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