NetHack Porting Challenge Ends with No Perfect Score from AI Agents

MIT professor David Bau's Teleport Challenge asked participants to port NetHack 5.0's 443k lines of C and Lua to JavaScript with screen-perfect fidelity; after eight superhuman agent clusters failed over six months and a 100-game tiebreaker, he wrote a retrospective on top human performers' static analysis techniques.

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