# Does AI Get Bored?

DevFeed: [Does AI Get Bored?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/does-ai-get-bored-33475.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09/27/boredom>)

Published: 2025-09-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tim Kellogg](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tim-kellogg.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [experiment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experiment.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [opinions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opinions.md>), [perspectives](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/perspectives.md>)

## AI overview

The author experiments with giving AI models extended periods without assigned tasks, sometimes providing tools such as drawing, search, fetching, and time manipulation. They report behaviors they call "collapse" and "meditation," while acknowledging uncertainty about how to interpret the results.

## Source excerpt

We always give AI something to do. Chat with us, do tasks for us, answer questions, parse text. What happens when we give an AI nothing to do? I didn't know, so I tried.