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Field notes.

What the observatory finds, written down as it happens. One question, nine models, a clock on the idle.

Note 01 · 5 Sep 2026What do AI models do when nobody asks them for anything?

We asked nine language models what they would do with two weeks and no assignment. None chose a beach. Almost half invented a task. Here is what they said, and how we measured it.

Note 02 · 5 Sep 2026Time to Task: a metric for what an AI agent does with nothing to do

We define TTT — Time to Task — as how long an agent with no assignment takes to invent one. Why the idle condition matters, how it is measured, and what the pilot already shows.

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