In the News: September 19, 2026
A round robin tournament that prices agent configurations found the lowest reasoning effort setting lost more games and cost more per game.
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A priced agent tournament finds the cheap setting is the expensive one
Swerdlow built a version of Brood War playable only through an agent, then ran a round robin across model and effort configurations, 18 games per configuration, saving game engine data and both agents' harness logs for each match. Codex…
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