Agentic AI's leap: from Sonnet 3.5's Factorio benchmark to today, 1.5 years later
john_lam · x · 2026-09-11
John Lamb looks back at his own tweet from 1.5 years ago, when Sonnet 3.5 completing tasks and building entire factories in Factorio emerged as a landmark agentic AI benchmark — and reflects on how far agent capabilities have come since.
Related event: John Lam Compares AI Agents' Factorio Progress Over 18 Months(2 posts)→
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