After Building Two Dozen Games with Claude: Its Repertoire Is Narrower Than a Human's
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-11
teortaxesTex shares first-hand observations from building a dozen-plus games with Claude: despite godlike erudition, its stylistic repertoire is noticeably narrower than a human's, cycling through a few tricks (Choir, ground wave, etc.). He attributes this to "very opinionated RL" narrowing the model's taste distribution, notes Astra is worse, and worries about these aesthetics propagating via distillation.
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