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Upgrading Claude models in Pokémon primarily involves deleting prompt scaffolding
“Literally every model that has come out with Pokemon, like, the main change that I have made to this agent is deleting prompt stuff.”
David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 22:51 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
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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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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
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Hershey Restricts Multi-Button Inputs After Claude Overwrote Ivysaur's Attack
“People who have watched the stream often complain about the fact that I don't let Claude press multiple buttons when there's dialogue on the screen anymore. That's because I watched a run, or a run, where it had an Ivysaur in Mt. Moon, and it had Tackle as its…”
David Hershey Apr 5, 2025 ▶ 7:58 Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!
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