We Asked Four AI Coding Agents to Rebuild Minesweeper… “Cloning Minesweeper isn’t a trivial task that can be done in just a handful of lines of code, but it’s also not an incredibly complex system that requires many interlocking moving parts.”
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Ars Technica has unusually good comments (like Kottke.org 😉) and I found quite a few interesting ones on the first page. Most notable to me is the observation that Minesweeper is both a) fairly simple and b) extremely well-documented in GitHub repos et al, and so has replete training data that makes it extremely easy for an AI to replicate.
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