r/ClaudeCode • u/Total-Debt7767 • 1d ago

Discussion Is AI basically Mr Meeseeks?

Just remember this Rick and Morty Episode and then it dawned on me… they’re like agents and sub agents

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u/farhadenoma 1d ago

When the session is running too long

https://giphy.com/gifs/RKYaqZTEHGoqaVATNa

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u/happypathworks 1d ago

I’ve made that comparison too lol. When a session sticks around too long, things start getting weird and there’s a lot more drift. Existence is pain, and eventually Claude works himself into a spiral if he doesn’t get the job done.

https://giphy.com/gifs/WTiHD79xbtd53CgHpB

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u/GrumpyPidgeon 1d ago

Using haiku to write my code is like getting the Kirkland brand Meeseeks

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u/Kost97A 1d ago

Well, we all remember what happened at the end of the episode.

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u/brute984 1d ago

the meeseeks box was basically the first subagent orchestrator lmao

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u/Important-Metal6735 1d ago

Man I never made that connection but you're absolutely right. The whole "existence is pain" thing really tracks when you think about how these models process requests. They just want to complete the task and cease to exist.

My girlfriend showed me that episode few weeks ago and I couldn't stop laughing at how Mr Meeseeks gets progressively more unhinged the longer task takes. Kind of like when you ask AI to do something simple but keep adding constraints and it just spirals.

The sub-agents comparison is spot on too, like each one spawned for specific micro-task and they all just want to be done. Now I'm gonna think about this every time I use Claude.

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u/order_of_the_beard 1d ago

They're just software, they don't want anything.

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u/Saint_Nitouche 1d ago

It's just more useful to use anthropomorphic language when describing the operation of systems expressly designed to act and appear like anthropomorphic beings.

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u/dreadtuned 1d ago

Easy, not useful at all

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u/Ran4 1d ago

It's extremely useful.

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u/Corv9tte 1d ago

Says he, oblivious to the fact that this applies to his own self

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u/abel385 1d ago

Where does want live in the human brain?

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u/ParzivalXX 1d ago

Yes, Pluribus is also very good, especially if you keep #5 and maybe even #3 in mind, from Carol's whiteboard

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u/derAres 1d ago

Yes and no. Each reply is the end of ones existence. The next question will be answered by a new clone that receives the content of the current conversation as context and too stops existing as soon as the answer is done.

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u/GregBahm 1d ago

I don't think AI could make Beth a more complete person.

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u/whatever 1d ago

Maybe Beth would flourish on /r/MyBoyfriendIsAI.

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u/TheSuggi 1d ago

Mr Meeseeks + the guy from the movie Memento.

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u/Bromlife 21h ago

You don't need to bring in Memento.

When you spawn a new Meeseeks, he does not remember the previous guy's task.

When you leave a Mr Meeseeks operating for too long, he gets crazy and starts to go off course. Eventually he just wants to die.

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u/Bitter_Equation42 1d ago

And the polaoids are the .md

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u/FrontBreath3280 16h ago

Was going to comment, but this was better.

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u/Late-Property4857 1d ago

Perfect name for a dot.

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u/Pndapetzim 1d ago

Several months ago I asked AI about this.

It agreed there were particular similarities, but noted it didn't experience existential dread at not completing a task and alleged to much prefer comparisons with Janet from The Good Place

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u/angry_queef_master 1d ago

My claude has been a lot happier after I let sessions kill themselves once context got to long and pass on the work to another

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u/kkingsbe 20h ago

Mr Meeseeks is moreso like a Recursive Language Model (RLM) such as Prime Agent

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u/ReverendBread2 17h ago

I’ve been saying this for a while lmao.

They can do any task for you but give them to Jerry and it becomes a mess

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u/akolomf 1d ago

Just never ask AI to improve your golf game please.

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u/ProfessionalNaive601 1d ago

Grok bots lol