I Directed AI Agents to Build a Tool That Stress-Tests Incentive Designs. Here’s What It Found.

Author(s): Selfradiance Originally published on Towards AI. Incentive Wargame I don’t write code. I have zero programming experience. What I do is direct AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex — to build open-source tools, and then I test them until they either work or break in interesting ways. Agent 006 is the sixth tool in that series, and it’s the one that surprised me. It takes a natural-language description of an economic system — a set of rules about who can do what, with what resources, u