Coding Agent Competition: Porting NetHack
davidbau · x · 2026-07-18
David Bau launches a competition for coding agents: participants can point their coding agents at a repository to try porting NetHack, a project with over 440,000 lines of C and Lua, to JavaScript.
He emphasizes the task is 'simple but not easy' as it is easy to verify, yet far from being solved by agents; no one has cracked it yet.
Related event: University Launches Vibe Coding Course and NetHack Agent Challenge(2 posts)→
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