GPT-5.6 Sol Can Beat Factorio on Peaceful Mode, Blogger Demonstrates
ryanmadden · hn · 2026-11-01
A widely discussed HN post shows OpenAI's GPT-5.6 (Sol) can complete Factorio on peaceful mode — a notoriously hard long-horizon planning benchmark for autonomous agents. The writeup documents the model's full playthrough, seen as another marker of frontier models' long-horizon agency.
More from coding & agent
- Coding agent drives iPhone via mirroring to auto-configure shortcuts syncing data to another agent — gethackteam · 2026-11-01
- Alma open-sources its Relay Server for self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted remote access — dotey · 2026-11-01
- Fully vibe-coded browser CS 1.6 clone adds crates and skins, supports 16 players — TAbrodi · 2026-11-01
- MyCaisse ships a remote MCP server: agents read/write freely, money moves only after human approval — Glittering-Cup9298 · 2026-11-01
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.106 fixes CRLF handling, GHES URLs, encoding and more — copilot-cli-release-app[bot] · 2026-11-01
- Simo Guard: a security layer that vet AI agent tool calls before execution — CIRRUS_IPFS · 2026-11-01