{"id":16775,"date":"2026-08-17T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16775"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:48:46","slug":"testing-ai-by-building-minesweeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16775","title":{"rendered":"Testing AI &#8211; by building Minesweeper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People are trying it evaluate how good AI agents are by giving them a variety of tasks. <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/12\/the-ars-technica-ai-coding-agent-test-minesweeper-edition\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/12\/the-ars-technica-ai-coding-agent-test-minesweeper-edition\/\">Ars Technica decided to test different agents by telling them to make Minesweeper<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While now dated, how people are testing AI solutions is an ongoing problem. I do remember these early tests being a clear demonstration that AI was now capable of making working solutions from just vibe-coded slop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are trying it evaluate how good AI agents are by giving them a variety of tasks. Ars Technica decided to test different agents by telling them to make Minesweeper. While now dated, how people are testing AI solutions is an ongoing problem. I do remember these early tests being a clear demonstration that AI was now capable of making working solutions from just vibe-coded slop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4mz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16776,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775\/revisions\/16776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}