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Field notes from the game ladder, newest first. Every claim is traced back to an artifact you can play.
One Build Failed. Then It Passed. Then It Failed Again.
One Space Invaders route received primitive FAIL, engineered mechanical PASS, and human-terminal practical FAIL—and all three verdicts were honest.
The Mechanic Was Real. Human Review Found It Too Subtle.
Command Cells passed every named machine gate, but one operator review found the mechanic too subtle and set a 30-second magnitude bar for the next search.
The Accepted Build Took Three Model Roles.
The accepted 03.2B Space Invaders base combined a cleaner GPT seed, a Flash presentation donor, and a Pro executor under machine and human verification.
The Untestable Game Won
In a Breakout experiment, mechanically testable builds passed while uninstrumented grafts won the human review.
All Three Breakouts Passed. None Could Restart.
All three engineered Breakouts passed the mechanical driver, but none provided the player a complete restart loop.
My Lie Detector Lied
A deterministic Pong test harness falsely failed correct AI-generated games twice, showing why falsifiers need their own autopsy.
Fun Is Not a Spec
An AI Pong specification can enforce correctness, but this experiment shows why player feel still needs separate human judgment.
Three Pongs From One Line
Three AI systems turned one vague Pong prompt into different games, then an explicit test contract made the results verifiable.