# Noam Brown says coding agents let MIT students build a poker bot in an hour

> Original title: Every winter, @MIT has run a 1-month class (6.9630) in which students make poker AIs and compete against each other for cash prizes. Codi...

- Source: Noam Brown
- Published: 2026-10-27T16:56:14.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/k3pfj51pkxc7y4b5hehgupxk6
- Original: https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2115125429619343609

## Summary

Noam Brown says MIT's annual one-month poker AI class, 6.9630, has been accelerated so much by coding agents that building a poker bot now takes an hour. He adds that he will attend the finals of No Limit, a bot-building tournament hosted by Sequoia, Citadel Securities, and OpenAI with a $100K grand prize.

## Post

Every winter, @MIT has run a 1-month class (6.9630) in which students make poker AIs and compete against each other for cash prizes. Coding agents have accelerated that process so much that it's now possible to build a poker bot in an *hour*.

Also, I'll be at the finals!

## Quoted post @sequoia

> Announcing No Limit: a bot building tournament hosted by @Sequoia, @citsecurities and @OpenAI.
> 
> Teams of 1 or 2 get 60 minutes to build a pokerbot from scratch.
> 
> Agents play thousands of games across six scored rounds.
> 
> Open to university students and recent grads (‘25 or ‘26).
> 
> Regionals in Boston, Pittsburgh and the Bay Area in early November. Top five teams from each fly to the Finals. $100K grand prize.

https://x.com/sequoia/status/2115111389501218868