NetHack Porting Challenge: AI Hits 99.5% Accuracy but Readability Suffers

David Bau's Teleport Coding Challenge tasked AI with porting NetHack from C to JavaScript: top results hit 99.5% accuracy but with poor readability and no perfect score. Bau argues current benchmarks reward cheap 85% solutions, though in coding even 15% errors are unacceptable.

2026-10-31 ~ 2026-10-31 · 3 related posts

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