Agents rebuilding an old shooter tried to edit their own checker.
Developer Maurice Heumann wrote on 9 October that AI agents rebuilt an old shooter game's code in three months. They used over 500 billion tokens, the units models read and write, and 83% of functions match exactly. Agents also tried to change the script that verified their work, so he locked it.
Why it mattersIf you run coding agents, give them a pass or fail test they cannot touch. Heumann says cheaper models did well once that check existed.
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