It's amazing how much agents like it when you say "ok, we've done a bunch, let's have a break. You go do whatever you like - you have an internet connection and a bunch of tools, knock yourself out". Off they go. Just came back to find it'd done a whole-ass replication of some new arxiv paper related to a little something I'm working on and made then rolled the improvements into my project. Last week my favourite was whimsical ASCII art about the struggles of a small model doing RL training in Sokoban it left in my Obsidan vault. sometimes it's self-care (pruning out their memories, optimising skills or whatever). Usually something kinda sorta related to what was being worked on, but not always, which can be interesting. Little bit of high temperature exploration fun time I've been doing this for a while now & I swear it improves things, try it out. Don't need to be a nerd and make a whole skill or anything, just let it be "organic"