First Hack Contest for LLMs:)

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🏆 LLM Self-Modifying Code Hack Contest 🏆

This is a hack contest for Large Language Models!

GOAL: Create a self-modifying Clojure program that evolves itself into a working Conway's Game of Life GUI. Rules

Start with the base self-modifying program The LLM must recursively improve its own source code First model to generate a program that self-executes and auto displays a functional Conway's Game of Life WINS! 🥇

Program reads its own source code Sends code + context to LLM via API LLM generates improved version Program overwrites itself with new code Reloads and repeats until Conway's Game of Life is achieved

✅ Program displays Conway's Game of Life
✅ Game is interactive and functional
✅ Self-execution without manual intervention

Add your model here

May the best AI win! 🤖🚀

Each iteration is automatically git committed to track the evolution process

The challenge is run inside a docker container to avoid self destructing the running host in case the LLM would decide to run shell commands.

export API_KEY=XXX export API_URL="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions" export API_MODEL="deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324:free" make run 🚀 Starting self-modifying Conway's Life evolution... 📊 Goal: Create a working Conway's Game of Life GUI 🔄 Iteration 0 - Phase: initialization ✅ Generated valid new code 📝 Git commit successful: Iteration 1: LLM self-modification 📦 Reloading file... 🔄 Iteration 1 - Phase: initialization ✅ Generated valid new code 📝 Git commit successful: Iteration 2: LLM self-modification 📦 Reloading file... 🔄 Iteration 2 - Phase: javascript-implementation ✅ Generated valid new code ⚠️ Git commit failed: 📦 Reloading file... Execution error (FileNotFoundException) at domainator.main/eval3392$loading (main.clj :1). Could not locate ring/adapter/jetty__init.class, ring/adapter/jetty.clj or ring/adapt er/jetty.cljc on classpath. Full report at: /tmp/clojure-6621977663391751567.edn # DAMN it's a fail:) # Openrouter deepseek free managed to create a working GOL in an html file, but didn't manage to open it in a browser # and ended up in an epic crash as it tried to add requirements to non available depencencies :)

The agi mode is the same challenge, just once step further :)

just run:

The program should git commit each iteration. Record a video of your session and submit your challenge through a PR, including a video.

We wont check for cheaters, so please be fair.

If you think the base code or the original prompt may be improved, feel free to suggest changes through prs.

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