[cristoperb]

Thanks for sharing, and congratulations!

Interesting that you didn't use dead reckoning at all to return to the nest. I didn't think I could get away with that. And somehow using a second channel to extend the trails never occurred to me.

[andthenzen]

Thanks to everyone in this chain for sharing! I've learned so much from your programs and was inspired to make my repo public and do a write up as well. I was 52nd place with a score of 599.

https://github.com/Taxes/ants

[grantsucceeded]

Wow. thank you so much for the writeup.

I'm just now (last few months) dabbling with agentic coding, but being an oldschool tech guy I had to dive straight into assembly. It was just too hard for me to level up my agentic skills given the deadline.

[TheCog]

I wrote a... slightly substantial writeup: https://hallofdreams.org/posts/agents-and-ants/

[grantsucceeded]

Thanks!

This challenged coincided with my first dabblings into agentic coding. I wrote all my attempts in hand coded assembly, without doing any basic research. but your site is very entertaining and is reminding me of why the connection of ants/swarms cellular automata to gradient discovery to AI always blows my mind