Games & SimulationsDone with Devin Mar 13, 2024
Build a chess game against a language model
An early tester asked Devin to build a chess game against a language model; it made good progress but eventually hung.
- What They Did
- Early tester Andrew Kean Gao, a computer science student, gave Devin a chess game to build in which the player competes against a language model. Devin works in an isolated environment with a shell, code editor and browser. The source gives no further detail on the steps it took or on how Gao intervened.
- How It Went
- Devin made remarkable progress, but at some point it hung and the game wasn't finished. Gao's other tests had mixed results: a Chrome extension worked, and an Antarctic temperature visualization was unsatisfactory.
- Worth Knowing
- Devin was only available to selected developers through a waiting list at the time, and the source gives no cost or time figures for this task.
Try it yourself with Devin
Build a chess game where I play against a language model through [API or model name]. It should show the board, enforce legal moves, and call the model for its replies. You're done when I can play a full game from start to checkmate. Tell me if you get stuck instead of looping, and describe what's left unfinished.