03 · early autoresearch
Our first hillclimb had no finish line.
The original autoresearch loop found useful hypotheses—and then taught us why capped snapshots cannot crown a champion.
OverGrid / AI Field Notes
Two ways to read the board.
Choose a behind-the-scenes account of the game AI, or a player-facing strategy story drawn from the same concrete problems.
4 notes for Research method.
Behind the AI
For game makers: engineering, evaluation, tooling, and failed experiments.
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04 · named AI
Four named AIs walked into the same position. They all made the same move.
The day OverGrid stopped confusing character copy with behavioral identity.
08 · reproducibility
Autoresearch needs a contract, not just a hillclimb
The rules OverGrid adopted after a plausible AI lead vanished under more seeds, replies, and horizon.
13 · human loop
Autoresearch did not make the breakthrough. Playtests gave it something real to optimize.
How OverGrid playtests made deterministic AI research more useful.