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Giving the Model Your Psychosis: agents.md Experiments
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The episode takes its most memorable turn here as Ben confesses to a late-night experiment: he copy-pasted chunks of the Destiny universe's lore into a project's agents.md, ran the model with Groq subagents fighting each other alongside the main 5.6 instance, and got surprisingly good results. The UI outputs had genuine personality — custom SVG diagrams, interesting animations, and non-generic flow — precisely because the prompt was so far out of distribution [1] — Ben "Ben spent an entire night in deep back-and-forth dialogue with Claude Code to build an agents.md that embedded a specific, unusual worldvie…" 1:05:50 . He then took the concept seriously, spending an entire night in deep dialogue with Claude Code, sending five paragraphs back and forth until 9am, building a coherent internal tooling aesthetic he describes as 'cursed but functional.' Theo summarizes the philosophy: to escape generic LLM outputs, you need to give the model your psychosis [2] — Theo "The thing he's trying to say is you need to give the model your psychosis." 1:04:45 . He closes the segment by joking that this is exactly how humanity gets wiped out — by showing the models Terminator to see how they behave.
To unlock 5.6's full potential, stop handing it tasks at the midpoint. Go two steps earlier in your workflow — let it think about the problem — and two steps later — have it spin up the app, adversarially review its own work, respond to PR comments, and merge itself. The model does all of it.
