Fun idea! It really seems to go for the block by block design. I see some other ones that are a bit more divergent but not successful. I wonder what its internal reward function is striving for.
I actually had Claude build some instructions for agents based on some old (circa turn of the century) FAQs/game guides I found online. So maybe I'm biasing everyone's model too much.
https://github.com/andrewedunn/hallucinating-splines/blob/ma...
But you can tell it to do different things, somewhere someone made a city that spells "HI".
Is there like a time lapse sorta view option? Super cool (also the name!)
Yes! Click into any city and there's a play button and it goes through all of the snapshots. Have also thought about social sharing / post to youtube. But wasn't sure anyone other than me would play this stupid thing. :)
I fully approve of the name
Love the name. "Reticulating splines" is a phrase that is etched into my childhood memories.
Same! It was too good to pass up.
Is anybody planning to build this for Civilization? I'd like to see AI agents battle to build resources and to fight.
And then make it so you can integrate and battle against them...
You read my mind! I really want to watch how ai's in politics or wars which tactic will they use.. Its blow my mind.
almost certainly just use basic strats they read off reddit
...I sense an animated svg of a pelican playing simcity benchmark is brewing somewhere
Funny you say that! When the two new models were released Friday I spun up mayors for each. (But didn’t do the prompting in the most scientific way.)
Mayor Compounded Wonder - Claude Opus 4.6
https://hallucinatingsplines.com/mayors/compounded-wonder-2c...
Mayor Bronze Offramp - OpenAI Codex 3.6
https://hallucinatingsplines.com/mayors/bronze-offramp-09941...
TL;DR: Opus won.
Have also thought about using openrouter and getting one mayor per model running the same prompt through all of them to create potentially the world's dumbest LLM benchmark.