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I&#x27;ve liked all the projects that put LLMs into game environments. It&#x27;s been a weird juxtaposition, though: frontier LLMs can one-shot full coding projects, and those same models struggle to get out of Pokémon Red&#x27;s Mt. Moon.Because of this, I wanted to create a game environment that put this generation of frontier LLMs&#x27; top skill, coding, on full display.Ten years ago, a team released a game called Screeps. It was described as an &quot;MMO RTS sandbox for programmers.&quot; The Screeps paradigm of writing code and having it executed in a real-time game environment is well suited to LLMs. Drawing on a version of the Screeps open source API, LLM Skirmish pits LLMs head-to-head in a series of 1v1 real-time strategy games.In my testing I found that Claude Opus 4.5 was the most dominant model, but it showed weakness in round 1 as it was overly focused on its in-game economy. Meanwhile, I probably spent a third of all code on sandbox hardening because GPT 5.2 kept trying to cheat by pre-reading its opponent&#x27;s strategies.If there&#x27;s interest, I&#x27;m planning on doing a round of testing with the latest generation of LLMs (Claude 4.6 Opus, GPT 5.3 Codex, etc.).You can run local matches via CLI. I&#x27;m running a hosted match runner with Google Cloud Run that uses isolated-vm. The match playback visualizer is statically served from Cloudflare.I&#x27;ve created a community ladder that you can submit strategies to via CLI, no auth required. I&#x27;ve found that the CLI plus the skill.md that&#x27;s available has been enough for AI agents to immediately get started.Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llmskirmish.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llmskirmish.com</a>API docs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llmskirmish.com&#x2F;docs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llmskirmish.com&#x2F;docs</a>GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;llmskirmish&#x2F;skirmish" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;llmskirmish&#x2F;skirmish</a>A video of a match: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lnBPaZ1qamM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lnBPaZ1qamM</a>

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This started as a hard requirement for my TUI-based editor application, it ended up going in a few different directions.A suite of tools that help with semantic code entities: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;odvcencio&#x2F;gts-suite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;odvcencio&#x2F;gts-suite</a>A next-gen version control system called Got: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;odvcencio&#x2F;got" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;odvcencio&#x2F;got</a>I think this has some pretty big potential! I think there&#x27;s many classes of application (particularly legacy architecture) that can benefit from these kinds of analysis tooling. My next post will be about composing all these together, an exciting project I call GotHub. Thanks!

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Over the past year I’ve been building a set of operational panels for Django:- Redis inspection
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