有时，特工受到彼此的影响，以至于他们失去了目标，而是做了其他事情。从这个意义上讲，该程序非常幼稚，不可预测且容易分散注意力。正如一位程序员所说，试图编程分发的情报就像告诉一个五岁的孩子去他的房间换衣服。他可能会这样做，但他同样有可能做其他事情并且永远不会回来。
(Sometimes agents were so influenced by one another that they lost track of their goal and did something else instead. In that sense, the program was very childlike, unpredictable and easily distracted. As one programmer put it - trying to program distributed intelligence is like telling a five year old kid to go to his room and change his clothes. He may do that, but he is equally likely to do something else and never return.)