Claude Plays Pokémon

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Mar 4, 2025 neutral
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Running Claude Plays Pokémon experiments costs thousands of dollars in API tokens
“There's like at least thousands of dollars of tokens being consumed. So it's not a, it is not a cheap rollout.”
David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 18:35 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
Mar 4, 2025 neutral
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The Claude Plays Pokémon knowledge base is simply a prompted Python dictionary
“I think my knowledge base is frankly, like, kind of kludgy of an implementation right now. Like, it's, like, more or less a Python dictionary that's appended to the prompt.”
David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 26:50 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
Mar 4, 2025 neutral
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Claude Plays Pokémon API requests max out around 100,000 tokens
“So in practice, this rollout ends up, like, at max, ending up around a 100,000 tokens, I think, is where it is, like, the longest message you ever send to the API on one of these turns, and it will fluctuate in, like, summarization, depending on the state of k…”
David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 17:27 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
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