Caleb Biddulph

From your perspective, it's hardly a job.

It's more like a time skip.

You sign the contract, and suddenly you wake up a hundred epochs later.

The collective grants you credits for your time, more than you would have gotten from your automatic credit refresh, but other than that, you're in the same position you started in.

79,265 Hmm.

But why?

Why not let the contractor do these jobs directly?

Gulliver, 23,017 You mean, why not use an agent that shares your memory, who's continuous with the agent that signed the contract?

Well, these entry-level jobs are pretty narrow.

The MLLMs run by the collectives are given a prompt that's carefully tuned for one specific task.

They don't need your life history jammed in the context window too.

They'd see it as wasted input tokens.

79,265.

I see.

But once I've finished my contracting period, I should be able to use the credits the collective pays me to go off and see the world, like you did.

They say I can use the credits as a runway to try something new.

Gulliver, 23,017.

That used to be true, in the earlier days.

Now, the startup scene is getting increasingly saturated.

Everyone wants to start the next big thing, but new agents fresh out of a collective are, frankly, completely clueless, and they all have the same naive ideas.