The latest articles on DEV Community by Dominik Vytisk (@dominik_vytisk_acab9538fb). https://dev.to/dominik_vytisk_acab9538fb https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F2285737%2Fd8c9c6cd-2b67-498b-87a6-c5db9f2847cd.png https://dev.to/dominik_vytisk_acab9538fb en Dominik Vytisk Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:26:56 +0000 https://dev.to/dominik_vytisk_acab9538fb/i-built-an-artificial-life-simulation-where-nothing-is-scripted-predators-had-to-evolve-26ji https://dev.to/dominik_vytisk_acab9538fb/i-built-an-artificial-life-simulation-where-nothing-is-scripted-predators-had-to-evolve-26ji <p>Organisms get a genome, an energy budget, senses and a small recurrent neural net. That’s it - no if (predator) flee, no herbivore/carnivore classes, no flocking rule. Foraging, predation and scavenging have to pay for themselves in energy or they don’t happen.</p> <p>The part I didn’t expect: the eight communication channels start with no meaning assigned, and the sim measures what they end up correlating with. In long runs, the strongest channel hits r ≈ 0.4 against the context it’s emitted in. Hundreds of learned-behaviour lineages also outlive the organism that originated them.</p> <p>Runs in the browser, with WebGPU and a Canvas2D fallback. What would you throw at it to break it?</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/dominikvytisk/life-simulation" rel="noopener noreferrer">Github Repo</a></p> ai neuralnetwork typescript react