Hobby project: a deterministic coding arena where AI-written strategies battle
This entry describes a personal side project, a deterministic turn-based arena where AI or human-written TypeScript strategies compete, with replays for inspecting each decision. It is a showcase of a built project rather than a description of an unmet user problem.
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