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hoistway • today at 4:51 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Always assumed Pac-Man was an easy solve for modern AI. Guess those ghost patterns are trickier than they look for one-shot learning.


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thefourthchime • today at 5:48 AM

The game mechanics are shockingly hard for them to get right. You also reveal some of their personality traits. The GPT‑6 and Astra models tend to include a lot of cringe copy as well as their own personal graphics style.

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gedy • today at 5:17 AM

I did a variant of Pac Man using Claude and pointed it at a thorough blog post about the patterns and that greatly helped.