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dgellowtoday at 6:48 AM1 replyview on HN

Games like Diablo are basically a whole bunch of slot machines, and there are strategies you can follow to optimize your run.


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gambitingtoday at 7:15 AM

Yes, because in video games there is always a chance to win so you can optimize your strategy around that chance. If you have a 1% chance to drop a legendary weapon, the question becomes how do I manufacture 100 chances for a weapon drop in the shortest possible time. With agentic coding there is no such guaranteed chance - in a way it's worse than a slot machine that is guaranteed to pay out eventually. You could spend hundreds of millions of tokens and still not get what you asked for.

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