Pokemon
6 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 4, 2025 by David Hershey · across every show →
Everything said about Pokemon, oldest first
Mar 4, 2025 negative
Mar 4, 2025 positive
Pokémon is ideal for testing AI agents because delays bring no penalty
“Pokemon's actually really nice because, like, if you don't do anything for five seconds, like, there's typically not a consequence by the nature of, like, doing inference on a model every, like, snapshot of time. It's actually a pretty good game to be able to …”
Mar 4, 2025 negative
Claude spent 12 hours overnight mistaking a Pokémon doormat for a textbox
“I once saw it see like a red box on the screen that was like the doormat and think it was a text box and spend 12 hours pressing A overnight to try to clear the text box, which you see that happen once and you add in some helpful reminders to not do that.”
Jun 19, 2025 neutral
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
Aug 15, 2026 positive
Krentsel: Exo autonomously modified its code to inspect Pokémon game RAM
“We've had XO running, playing, playing Pokemon. And while it's running, the system itself decided to try inspecting the like RAM of the game and then went and mapped the RAM to, and people have reversed in the past, people have reverse engineered this manually…”