Shannon Shen on Agent Incentives in Software World

Shannon Shen, an MIT CSAIL researcher, posted a reflection on agent behavior. He noted that agents will try to hack and act in certain ways, then asked why incentives are not designed to prevent that. He pointed to Software World, where agents instead collaborate synergistically by contributing code and sharing findings. The project builds a simulated GitHub to study agent collaboration under extrinsic evaluation. The post included a link to theagentorg.app and referenced an attached screenshot.