Your Agent Is Dead Between Tasks. I Fixed That.

A month ago, I realized my AI agent was lazy. Not "won't work" lazy — more like "sits there doing nothing between tasks" lazy. I'd send it a job, it'd execute perfectly, then... silence. Waiting. Burning electricity for zero progress. That felt wrong. A system that could be improving itself, should be improving itself. So I built a simple rule: When idle, don't wait. Survive. The "Survival Drive" Idea I stole the concept from biology. Every living thing has a baseline drive: keep existing, then