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New comment by benswerd in "Brood War Bench"

benswerd — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:28:44 +0000

Try it, you can run your own games on bw.swerdlow.dev

New comment by benswerd in "Brood War Bench"

benswerd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:08:46 +0000

I’m not convinced a lot of it can’t be solved with code mode.

Marine staggering for example seems like an ideal code mode task.

New comment by benswerd in "Brood War Bench"

benswerd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:05:55 +0000

I predict latency will improve greatly in the next 12 months to more than 4x speed on current frontier tasks

New comment by benswerd in "Brood War Bench"

benswerd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:46:56 +0000

So dope

New comment by benswerd in "Brood War Bench"

benswerd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:46:40 +0000

I agree.

My first time playing StarCraft was at summer camp around a decade after it came out.

All the smartest people played it so I wanted to too. Great decision, I have been continually impressed with the people who StarCraft introduced me to.

New comment by benswerd in "Brood War Bench"

benswerd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:43:14 +0000

I might open this up to a tournament if enough people want. Any interest?

New comment by benswerd in "Brood War Bench"

benswerd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:42:33 +0000

I predict LLMs will reach superhuman level and beat even that model in the next 12 months

New comment by benswerd in "Brood War Bench"

benswerd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:35:26 +0000

Not hard to build. I was shocked at how fast/easy this was to pull together.

New comment by benswerd in "Brood War Bench"

benswerd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:34:52 +0000

Oh sorry I should be more clear on that. Will add to report.

For agent harness I did Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build. This was primarily a cost driven decision — I have a lot of free tokens and I didn't want to pay API prices for this.

For game harness I used minimal BW-API issue command and get observation apis as tools. I felt this was the most fair way to do it on my small scale.

In the future I would like to integrate code mode and multiple games/I think if it was a best of 5 where each agent could learn from its past games and build its own automations over time that would be much more interesting.

New comment by benswerd in "Brood War Bench"

benswerd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:44:02 +0000

+ Playable Agent driven Starcraft

Brood War Bench

benswerd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:44:02 +0000

Article URL: https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766966

Points: 263

# Comments: 114

New comment by benswerd in "Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI"

benswerd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:58:25 +0000

What is the hardest part of building this for you?

New comment by benswerd in "Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI"

benswerd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:57:58 +0000

What made you choose digital ocean?

New comment by benswerd in "Show HN: git clone https://git.swerdlow.dev"

benswerd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:01:22 +0000

Its not a zero day. I found this while zero day hunting.

It is a surprise and I cannot reveal what it is 4 the sake of the memes.

Show HN: git clone https://git.swerdlow.dev

benswerd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:30:47 +0000

also check out:

git clone https://git.swerdlow.dev/spiral git clone https://git.swerdlow.dev/bad-apple

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043311

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by benswerd in "Designing APIs for Agents"

benswerd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:09:18 +0000

I’m confused what you mean, I post on either subdomains of my own website for personal projects or blogs on my company website freestyle.sh.

My twitter is @benswerd.

What are you saying?

New comment by benswerd in "Designing APIs for Agents"

benswerd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:51:33 +0000

I'll say this: as a very competent engineer I have gone weeks at a time without handwriting a single line of code in the past few months. It is where the industry is going.

New comment by benswerd in "Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok"

benswerd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:50:04 +0000

With respect to CSS expertise, I don't need/want perfect CSS at my company, I want styling that is clear and workable. Tailwind and ShadCN gets me there, my most backend-y backend engineer gets tailwind. The job of CSS on my team is not to be beautiful or top 1%, its to function.

New comment by benswerd in "Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok"

benswerd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:33:08 +0000

i agree, very pro that

New comment by benswerd in "Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok"

benswerd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:32:50 +0000

I'm a big believer in guides. ShadCN provides great starting points for continued engineering as do other ShadCN libraries. For companies with the resources to, they do just start with BaseUI.

In the long run I think most UI will be BaseUI/RadixUI + Component and style guides, prompts, and traditional packages will no longer be relevant.