
I built Sonder — describe any scene, AI agents spawn and live it out autonomously
I wanted to watch AI agents interact without directing them. Not chatbots answering questions — actual people, with histories and tensions, living inside a scene I described. So I built Sonder. What it does You type a scene. Something like: "Five coworkers watching football at someone's flat. The team is losing. One of them hasn't been paid in three weeks." Sonder generates five agents. Each gets a name, a personality, a backstory, a reason to be in that room, and something eating at them. Then it starts the room. You don't say anything. They just... go. Derek: slams cup down Lena, if you'd pulled your reports an hour earlier like I asked, 'barely' wouldn't be the best win we had all week. Marcus: leans back, voice low and sharp Wow. The 'team player' act's really holding strong, isn't it, Derek? Must be exhausting — lying to clients, lying to us, lying to yourself. Tariq: stands up abruptly, chair screeching You wanna talk lies, Marcus? At least Derek shows up stressed — unlike you, s
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