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Turns out someone’s throwaway joke about a hamster wheel wired to a mouse was actually a pretty good spec

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I saw a Reddit comment joking about whether a “human click” still counts if it comes from a hamster wheel wired to a mouse. That image got stuck in my head. So I started messing around with it. Now there’s a tiny hamster in the browser that wanders around when an agent is reading, runs on the wheel…

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  1. 2026-08-23 04:59 · r/AI_Agents
    Turns out someone’s throwaway joke about a hamster wheel wired to a mouse was actually a pretty good spec

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