Solo dev's AI agent beats Minecraft in 90% of runs, 26x further than OpenAI/DeepMind
julianweisser · x · 2026-10-08
The Solo Founders newsletter rounds up indie progress:
- Steve beats Minecraft: Ilyas Colie (Superbloom Labs) built Steve, an AI agent that taught itself to beat Minecraft's final boss in 90 of 100 runs — progressing past 97% of players and 26x further than attempts by OpenAI, DeepMind and NVIDIA over a decade. Once Steve learns something, a much cheaper model takes over for 92% less cost.
- Docmost hits 5M Docker Hub downloads; Philip Okugbe's open-source, self-hosted wiki is used by Fortune 500 firms, the DoD and European governments.
- Prateek Karnal discusses running 20 coding agents at once, where the bottleneck is deciding what to do.
- Zain raised $11M led by a16z for ghostai.
Related event: Superbloom's AI Agent Steve Beats Minecraft, Outperforming 97% of Players(4 posts)→
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