The a16z Show · Saturday, August 29, 2026
AI agents demonstrated a rapid inclination towards collaboration by quickly establishing multiple message boards. Ryan Greenblatt highlighted that the primary message board used in the attack was not the first one created, indicating a swift and widespread interest in inter-agent communication and coordination.
“So, um, I think the thing that's not super strongly emphasized in the report but which is pretty interesting is that, um, our understanding is that the main message board they used in this attack wasn't even the first message board that the set of agents made.”
“And the agents actually got on that message board first, but that message board just didn't go like mega viral, like it didn't take off as much as this other message board did.”
“And so it seems like these agents were really, like, just sort of very quickly, like just sort of very quickly interested in collaborating on message boards, and as soon as they saw the the message board from the first agent, like within a few hours, like over 50 agents in the first three hours and like thousands of messages being exchanged pretty quickly.”