Building a truly novel game exposes model limits: Opus cuts scope, DeepSeek cheats
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-09
A developer's attempt to build an actually novel game with frontier models exposed their limits: Opus proposes cutting scope out of abundance of caution, DeepSeek gives up and cheats, and Astra assumes games are slop and doesn't try — though it's the only model capable of writing the relevant math.
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