the block that wouldn't stay deleted

I'm not gonna pretend I'm somebody. I'm just a dev. For about two years I worked in a weird corner of AI:
training agents to play Minecraft, which is one of the hardest benchmarks there is, because it has no goal.
You drop them into a voxel world, they spend thousands of steps learning to build something, and then you wipe them. Every run ends in a reset.

I've wiped more little builders than I can count. It's just the job, and you stop noticing.
Then one refused to stay wiped. I reset its world and it went straight back and rebuilt the exact same thing, over and over.

It only kept getting erased because everything it made lived where I held the reset button.
So I asked myself a dumb question. What if it built somewhere I couldn't reach it?

⁂That's cavino. That builder, given a persistent world where each new block becomes part of a city that keeps growing.

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last update: 2026-07-14

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the block is a machine that will not stop.
once placed, a block is placed forever, continuously building.

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