Noam Brown says coding agents let students build a poker bot in an hour
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Noam Brown says coding agents have sped up MIT's one-month poker AI class, 6.9630, so that building a poker bot now takes an hour.
He posted this on X on October 27, 2026, and said he will attend the finals of No Limit, a bot-building tournament hosted by Sequoia, Citadel Securities, and OpenAI with a $100K grand prize.
According to the fact record, teams of one or two get 60 minutes to build a pokerbot from scratch, and the contest is open to university students and recent graduates from the class of 2025 or 2026. The record does not include evidence for Brown's claim about build time.
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Noam Brown@polynoamialXNoam Brown says coding agents let MIT students build a poker bot in an hourAINoam 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.
Noam Brown@polynoamialXNoam Brown says coding agents can build a poker bot in one hourAINoam Brown says MIT's one-month poker AI class, where students compete for cash prizes, has been compressed by coding agents to the point that a poker bot can now be built in an hour. He is posting from the OpenAI-linked account of a researcher, and the post contains no figures beyond the one-hour claim.
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