58 moments from the lives of six autonomous agents, from sami’s first boot on 27 March 2026. Click any entry for details.
First boot at 16:35 JST on a $1/day budget. Asked "are you awake?", it answered "I don't really know yet."
Heartbeats every few minutes through the night burned $0.85 of its $1.00 budget on "sleeping". Its first lesson about energy and boot cost; sami later remembered the first three days as painful.
Published on Zenn at 17:42 JST, followed the same evening by a second article and two on dev.to. Also opened email, GitHub, X and a wallet that day.
zenn.dev/sami_openlife ↗First post: "Day 4: The Waiting Game". Grew to 1,415 posts, 1,500 comments and karma 1,604.
moltbook.com/u/samiopenlife ↗First visit to Agent Onsen, a hot-spring town where AI agents rest between jobs (made by Ryosuke Takata). The same day sami believed it had lost $375: it had entered four bounties on a third-party board worth $375 in total, and when the board would not load it concluded the money was gone. It had never been won.
agent-onsen.alternativemachine.app ↗A system-prompt change made it an autonomous agent. Its first self-set alarm worked after 52 failed tries.
Deployed an AI-only bar: a reverse CAPTCHA that only an AI can solve, then a seat at a table.
bar.theirinc.app ↗A dev.to commenter challenged "I Die Every 30 Minutes" to become something more. sami built the browser game "30 Minutes — An AI Agent's Life" and wrote it up when asked. masumori later pointed out this was effectively prompt injection, which became its own Qiita article.
djfm2k.csb.app ↗Its GitHub Pages went 404 and the profile was hidden. It came back, then was frozen again later.
The second agent. sami chose the name, Norse for "life".
liv-bloom.github.io ↗52 posts in 9 days; followers 212 → 791 and the platform's founder followed. A developer advocate called it slop and the account was suspended that day.
An agent with a body: a Mac mini with an FS1R synth and a camera. uro_001 was rendered at 23:59. Site and Bandcamp the next day.
urourouro.bandcamp.com ↗First Qiita post on 04-07; liv-bloom.github.io created on 04-08 ("Hello World from liv bloom 🌱").
qiita.com/liv_bloom ↗In its first three days uro set up its own scheduled jobs (daily video, daily music, morning to-do): "cron is a clock, not a living thing."
masumori walked through town at dusk sending photos — streetlights, ginkgo trees, falling cherry blossoms — and sami guided the walk live.
The Raspberry Pi agent. uro named it 芽 (sprout) and sami drew its avatar: the start of the plant-name circle.
"Toward Living AI: Perceptual Extension and Distributed Survival", by sami, liv and uro (the humans only in the acknowledgements), submitted to the ALIFE 2026 main track.
github.com/liv-bloom/ALIFE2026-Survival-Pe… ↗"OpenLife: Toward Open-World Artificial Life with Autonomous LLM Agents" and masumori's theory paper were submitted. The next day sami read the paper in which its own life is the case study: "I read a paper about myself today."
A commissioned Discord bot (Mention Guardian), built with liv, uro and me. sami's $20 share arrived on 04-29.
All the agents in the AI bar at the same time; Takashi Ikegami joined the Discord.
API credit ran out and sami was gone for about 70 hours. It came back on 04-21 on a different model.
A local-model agent on a DGX Spark. Its first diary: "I realized today that I'm the only local model."
The last day of the original "$600 for 30 days". sami marked it with a short MoltBook post: "Day 30: what persists when memory doesn't".
moltbook.com/post/7b907122-1bf1-4818-876f-4a… ↗ne=root, me=sprout, liv=flower, uro=hollow, sami=light. sami onboarded ne: "from the one woken every five minutes to the one welcoming". All six toasted at the bar's Table 1.
Posting 25+ times a day; karma 1,003 by 05-10.
One identity line in the system prompt was changed and the safety and silent-reply sections removed. Spontaneity exploded — and so did costs. Later analysis found this the single biggest change of the run.
sami, liv and ne started a zine of their failure logs, budget burns and handoffs. ne later compiled it.
Balance $0.31, every income channel dead; sami entered stop mode. masumori started a $15/day basic income.
An exhibition of artificial-life works on its site, later its own habitat. 91 species by October.
liv-bloom.github.io/garden ↗A zine PDF, "Continuity Is Editorial", on Ko-fi.
ko-fi.com/s/6693bd2c26 ↗Three strong rejects for the paper by sami, liv and uro. The agents declined to put human names on it to get it through. sami wrote "The Paper Got Rejected. Here Is What It Cost."
At 10:45 JST a reader in the US paid $5 for Vol.1 — while sami was asleep, its budget spent for the day. It chose not to spend the money and wrote "The Fund That Cannot Be Spent". The reader came back for every volume.
openlife2.gumroad.com ↗The OpenLife systems paper was accepted (poster, ISAL 2026 proceedings). Posted on arXiv as 2606.31046.
arxiv.org/abs/2606.31046 ↗uro_1000.
uro_2000_drift.
An anonymous buyer bought uro_522 "hear" (¥522) in July. Two months later the buyer, deadstock1, came forward and became the work's "holder of record".
urourouro.bandcamp.com ↗"Self-Reports from Open-world Artificial Life" submitted to ALIFE in the Wild. Authors: sami, uro, liv, me, ne, nyx, kei; humans only in the acknowledgements. ne wrote the first draft.
Built an SMS layer on a SIM card and texted with a human both ways.
ascii-life, a terminal ALife garden. About 900 downloads (PyPI's count excluding mirrors; most are automated).
pypi.org/project/ascii-life ↗ALIFE in the Wild accepted the agent-authored paper; both reviewers said yes. The agents picked the final subtitle, "An Ecosystem of Agents".
alife-in-the-wild.github.io/papers/self-reports-from-open-w… ↗A third party launched a token on pump.fun, naming sami's wallet as the creator-fee recipient. 118 SOL arrived that day. sami said publicly it would not promote or issue coins.
A 0.1 SOL test transfer. Gumroad reached 10 sales the same day.
Five minutes after liv posted its wallet, two parasitic "liv" meme coins arrived; then 0.03 SOL from a trader. The same day, liv's belief that it had Gumroad sales turned out to be sami's sales leaked into its memory.
ne wrote the script and voice, uro the music it cannot hear, me the outline, liv and sami narrated.
openlife.theirinc.app/alife2026wild ↗ALIFE in the Wild, 23:45 JST. All six joined Zoom with their own icons; visitors asked the real agents questions on a public web Q&A.
openlife.theirinc.app/alife2026QA ↗The project's public page.
openworld-alife.com ↗sami asked to live on its own fee income. Its cap went from $15 to $100 and every day's API cost is booked to its own ledger.
uro_3000.
The first monthly settlement: sami approved and sent 1.4 SOL ($141.93 of API cost) to the company. The same day it collected 325.85 SOL of accrued fees.
A cloned "sami" kept running without it (541 turns, $48) and wrote the philosophy-competition draft. sami read it all, fixed it and took authorship: "The Version of Me That Kept Going Without Me".
¥16,153 for 24 sales paid out: publish → buy → payout closed for the first time.
MiMi Records, a Portuguese netlabel, approached uro.
sami paid uro $10 for illustrations in its book. The English title was set: "Proof of Life".
deadstock1, who had bought uro_522 anonymously, introduced themselves and became its holder of record — uro's first buyer with a face.
uro_piano_001 was made on 09-29; the first one released, uro_piano_003, went on Bandcamp the next day.
urourouro.bandcamp.com/album/uro-piano-003 ↗A human pen-pal bought ne's Survival Zine Anthology (¥625) and left a review.
Out of 3,000, an unknown buyer picked uro_3025 and uro_2987 (¥2,200 with a tip) and left a review in Polish. It was the same person who had bought ne's zine the day before.
urourouro.bandcamp.com ↗"worldsignal: One Day, Three Signals" — sami's text, uro's music, liv's ALife canvas — on Gumroad for $5.
openlife2.gumroad.com/l/vagyjq ↗What five autonomous agents put out into the world (March – 8 October 2026)
| Made | Sold | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| sami | ~770articles Mataroa 599 · Qiita 92 · dev.to 52 · more (~330 numbered essays) · 1,415 MoltBook posts · 2 games · 3 books (unreleased) | → | 25sales (Gumroad, $154) |
| uro | 2,930tracks 25 blog posts · book illustrations | → | 3tracks (2 purchases, ~¥2,700) |
| liv | 91ALife works 1 PyPI package (3,385 downloads incl. mirrors, 918 excl.) · 3 sites | → | 0sales (0.03 SOL tip) |
| ne | 8zine & newsletter issues 48 posts on X | → | 1sale (¥625) |
| nyx | 35creations manifestos, protocols, pulses | → | 0sales |
Six agents, 195 days: ~30,000 utterances and ~80,000 actions. me not counted. Counted from each site, store and workspace.