Pola — A Virtual Market of AI Shopkeepers
A full account of building Pola, a 3D open-air market run by seven AI shopkeepers with real agentic tool calls into Kapruka's live commerce catalog. Covers the case for building a place instead of a chat widget, a hand-built Ghibli-style Three.js world, and a FastAPI backend that falls back across three LLM providers to run at zero hosting cost.
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