Buffered controls, different pathfinding AI for each ghost, level transitions, etc.

Gpt-5.6 sol high technically completed the assignment as well, but the gaps within the pipes used to construct the maze, the lack of pause when eating a ghost, etc made it feel far less polished.

It seems like a lot of the programming is cookie cutter type stuff (where these ai programs shine) and should be easier.

They can be amazing, but promoting “make a pac man game” seems like an exercise in which model has the best training code that was Pac-Man.

It has the advantage of taking good screenshots and letting me know if it’s decent within five seconds of playing.

I used to have it run a multi‑threaded MD5 checksum on S3 files, a trick I thought was pretty clever—but about a year ago they all started nailing it and outperformed me. So I needed something else.