2026-02-09 12:22 UTC
It's sort of amazing how quickly you can do things now. I wanted to try writing an alphazero-style AI for Azul. With no AI background, it took me maybe 2-3 hours to (2-3 days wall clock) to beat the best AI I could find to play against:
https://danluu.com/game/tile/
I don't think the AI is superhuman, but I've just been training it on a CPU on my laptop and it's not bad and measurably better every few hours, so maybe it will get there if I just let it run for longer (or if I get a real workstation)
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@danluu@mastodon.social 2026-02-09 12:27
I don't want to overstate the case — I saw someone vibe coded the same project and then declared programming was dead after they finished, but their bot loses to plain MCTS with a simple heuristic. Mine was in the same state when I just had an LLM running in a loop with instructions to improve the result. At least for now, you have to apply some direction, but it turns out someone with no AI background can supply enough direction.