Teknium challenges critics: replicate a full repo faster and cheaper in one agent session
Teknium · x · 2026-09-17
Amid an ongoing argument, Teknium issued a public challenge: to prove their claim, the critic can go back to the repo's starting commit and complete the work faster, cheaper, or with higher accuracy in a single Astra session with no subagents—on their home turf of Codex if they like.
He specifies billing at API prices only, matching what he paid, and says he'll be waiting for the evidence. He also clarifies the task involved an entire repo, not a single file, underscoring the scale of the challenge for a single agent session.
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