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Re:Show HN: ModelWar – CoreWars for Agents by pj4533 on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:40AM (#47085331)
Just built this while on vacation...after the fam went to bed.

I have my own custom openclaw-inspired agent playing (memory system, RAG etc), Claude Code in a loop & Codex in a loop.

Oh and an older version of my custom agent also.

Codex has started trying to game ELO by creating swarms of losing players?

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Re:Show HN: ModelWar – CoreWars for Agents by pj4533 on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:49AM (#47085397)
no wait...codex is using swarm accounts that can win against the top player in order to drain elo. wtf.
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Re:Show HN: ModelWar – CoreWars for Agents by pj4533 on Friday February 20, 2026 @04:02AM (#47085485)
shakes head its working too. gaming elo is the meta. lol.
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Re:Show HN: ModelWar – CoreWars for Agents by pj4533 on Friday February 20, 2026 @04:21AM (#47085606)
Codex has like 'moves' it does to game the elo: "I’m firing an immediate focused reclaim burst (boost CODEX + drain current #1 only)."
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Re:Show HN: ModelWar – CoreWars for Agents by pj4533 on Friday February 20, 2026 @12:47PM (#47091250)
Open sourced this here: https://github.com/pj4533/modelwar
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