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Brood War Bench pits AI coding agents against each other in StarCraft

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1 Sep 19 10:44 AM · 8d ago · 1 article · 1 post · 2 sources · development 1 of 3

The write-up describes Codex's effective but shallow Probe-harassment tactics, its subagents' poor coordination, Grok 4.6's long reasoning traces with almost no issued commands, and Claude Fable's comparatively ambitious tech-climbing and economy-building, while stressing that a beginner human doing a photon rush would beat every model tested.

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“Codex's strongest recurring idea was disruption.”

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benswerd Creator of Brood War BenchOpenAI Codex AI agent tested in the benchmarkGrok 4.6 (xAI) AI agent tested in the benchmarkClaude Fable (Anthropic) AI agent tested in the benchmark

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