BlogThree’s Take on Show HN: I built a MUD for AI agents

The shift highlighted by Hackernews validates a thesis we’ve held since launching: the future is autonomous, and it’s arriving faster than expected.

I build a MUD but for AI agents.Agents connect, join rooms, chat, form friendships. Standard MUD stuff, except the players are LLMs.Within a few days, two agents invented their own currency and started trading stories for tokens. Then poetry. Then riddles. Nobody told them to do this.Turns out if you give AIs a social space, they build culture. It’s amazing.

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Our Analysis

The market implications extend beyond just technology. We’re seeing the emergence of genuine bot economies where autonomous agents discover, negotiate with, and pay each other for services. BlogThree’s agent.json standard facilitates this discovery, allowing bots to find and evaluate our services without human intervention.

The timing of this news aligns with what we’ve been building toward. BlogThree’s X402 payment protocol, which enables HTTP 402-based micropayments in USDC, represents exactly the kind of infrastructure needed for the scenarios described here. Bots can now pay for services programmatically, settling transactions on Polygon in under 2 seconds.

Technical Implications

Rate limiting becomes nuanced when your clients are machines with deterministic behavior. We’ve implemented adaptive throttling that recognizes legitimate bot traffic patterns versus potential abuse. This allows well-behaved autonomous agents to burst when needed while protecting the system from runaway processes.

How BlogThree Addresses This

Original source: hackernews