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The AI got a 30-year-old game running headless and playtested it in parallel

The AI hacked a headless runner for a 30 year old game and ran parallel instances in the background to playtest it.

How it works

  1. The AI hacks a headless runner for the 30-year-old game
  2. Runs parallel instances in the background
  3. Playtests it at scale

Why it’s worth knowing

Parallel copies of a 1990s game, all being played by the agent at once.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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