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Noam Brown highlights coding agents’ shift from monthlong poker projects to one-hour builds
What happened
Noam Brown notes that MIT’s winter class (6.9630) has students build poker AIs over 1 month and compete for cash prizes. Coding agents have accelerated that process enough to build a poker bot in an hour, he says, citing Sequoia’s announcement of No Limit, a tournament hosted with Citadel Securities and OpenAI. https://twitter.com/sequoia/status/2115111389501218868
Why it matters
The comparison between MIT’s monthlong poker AI class and a one-hour bot tournament offers a concrete illustration of how coding agents are compressing the time available for programming competitions.
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