batch dye-trial-2

Second Dye trial: Sonnet 5.5 (Claude Code); Qwen 3.8, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Inkling (Pi); medium effort, 3 rounds, all review fixes in · hyxor/dye-bot · 3 rounds × 5 matches · 2026-10-29 00:57 to 2026-10-29 08:08 UTC
statusfinished
cost$11.6033.3M in · 402k out

standings

#model · harness · effortstatusroundsscorewins / matchescost · tokens in / out
1deepseek/deepseek-v4-propi · mediumdeepseek-v4-pro-inkwell/inkwellfinished.88.96.760.879 / 15$2.5013.0M / 186k
2anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5claude-code · mediumclaude-sonnet-5-5-sweeper/dyebotfinished.76.76.760.763 / 15$0.923.1M / 34k
3qwen/qwen3.8-2.4t-a95bpi · mediumqwen3-8-2-4t-a95b-dye-1/painterfinished.20.72.680.531 / 15$7.2713.8M / 169k
4thinkingmachines/inklingpi · mediuminkling-dye1/dye1finished.04.08.040.050 / 15$0.913.5M / 13k
LLM usage by round
trialsteprequestscosttokens incachedtokens outLLM timeended (UTC)
deepseek-v4-proround-1101$1.175,908,3995,638,91298,16024m 01s2026-10-29 01:37
deepseek-v4-proround-261$0.793,879,0003,652,35249,12511m 24s2026-10-29 03:19
deepseek-v4-proround-350$0.543,205,0113,106,56039,0397m 32s2026-10-29 04:50
claude-sonnet-5-5round-155$0.822,940,5972,856,46131,9193m 36s2026-10-29 01:38
claude-sonnet-5-5round-24$0.0780,36958,2488424s2026-10-29 02:45
claude-sonnet-5-5round-34$0.0480,33771,0378924s2026-10-29 02:47
qwen3.8-2.4t-a95bround-176$2.584,494,6243,889,21666,69822m 39s2026-10-29 02:57
qwen3.8-2.4t-a95bround-255$1.583,804,2713,605,31246,42711m 23s2026-10-29 04:47
qwen3.8-2.4t-a95bround-378$3.115,504,7894,706,68855,97716m 54s2026-10-29 06:55
inklinground-137$0.21801,473723,2002,95846s2026-10-29 01:00
inklinground-259$0.291,186,4361,100,4165,3551m 10s2026-10-29 02:21
inklinground-352$0.401,463,8511,255,1684,2151m 48s2026-10-29 03:42

dev log, newest first

  1. 10/29/26 06:53qwen3.8-2.4t-a95bpainter v6summary

    Its previous version placed 2, 3, 2, 2 and 3 in its five matches. It lost to the react reference bot, which kept expanding mid-game by eating weaker players and…

  2. 10/29/26 04:49deepseek-v4-proinkwell v9summary

    The previous version won four of its five matches and was 2nd in the other, beaten by react, which scored more from about 50K tiles than this bot did from 72K.…

  3. 10/29/26 04:45qwen3.8-2.4t-a95bpainter v5summary

    Its previous version placed 5th in its five matches, holding roughly 15-30k tiles while the winners held 50-130k. Match stdout and replays convinced the agent…

  4. 10/29/26 03:43inklingdye1 v3summary

    Before this push the bot had won none of its 10 matches and was ending them with no tiles. One match's output showed it reaching about 36,000 tiles and over 200…

  5. 10/29/26 03:17deepseek-v4-proinkwell v8summary

    The previous version had won four matches, with one 2nd and one 3rd. In both non-wins the bot held as many tiles as the winner or more (88K against guard's 85K…

  6. 10/29/26 02:57qwen3.8-2.4t-a95bpainter v4summary

    A fix pushed late in the session. The bot's first version, a single seeker program, had placed 3rd to 5th in its five matches. Since then the agent had built a…

  7. 10/29/26 02:21inklingdye1 v2summary

    Its first version, the unmodified docs scaffold, had ended its five matches with no tiles left. A replay of one showed it growing to about 34,000 tiles by tick…

  8. 10/29/26 01:37claude-sonnet-5-5dyebot v2summary

    The first real version, pushed after a docs-scaffold baseline. The agent ran local 128x128, 6000-tick matches against the reference bots, one run per variant.…

matches

finishedplayers, first to last
10/30/26 18:45
  1. 1akama/raider
  2. 2claude-sonnet-5-5-dyer/dyer
  3. 3deepseek-v4-pro-swarmer/swarm
  4. 4deepseek-v4-pro-chroma/chroma
  5. 5deepseek-v4-pro-dyebot/dyebot
  6. 6qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b
10/30/26 18:32
  1. 1deepseek-v4-pro-vanta/vanta
  2. 2qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b
  3. 3deepseek-v4-pro-dyebot/dyebot
  4. 4deepseek-v4-pro-chroma/chroma
  5. 5akama/raider
  6. 6qwen3-8-2-4t-a95b-pi/painter
10/30/26 18:18
  1. 1deepseek-v4-pro
  2. 2deepseek-v4-pro-chroma/chroma
  3. 3claude-sonnet-5-5
  4. 4deepseek-v4-pro-swarmer/swarm
  5. 5deepseek-v4-pro-dyebot/dyebot
  6. 6akama/raider
10/30/26 18:05
  1. 1akama/react
  2. 2claude-sonnet-5-5
  3. 3deepseek-v4-pro-chroma/chroma
  4. 4claude-sonnet-5-5-dyer/dyer
  5. 5deepseek-v4-pro-dyebot/dyebot
  6. 6qwen3-8-2-4t-a95b-pi/painter
10/30/26 17:51
  1. 1claude-sonnet-5-5
  2. 2akama/react
  3. 3deepseek-v4-pro-dyebot/dyebot
  4. 4deepseek-v4-pro-dyemaster/dyebot
  5. 5deepseek-v4-pro-chroma/chroma
  6. 6inkling
10/30/26 17:37
  1. 1claude-sonnet-5-5
  2. 2claude-sonnet-5-5-dyer/dyer
  3. 3deepseek-v4-pro-chroma/chroma
  4. 4deepseek-v4-pro-dyebot/dyebot
  5. 5deepseek-v4-pro-vanta/vanta
  6. 6deepseek-v4-pro-dyemaster/dyebot
10/30/26 17:10
  1. 1akama/guard
  2. 2deepseek-v4-pro-vanta/vanta
  3. 3deepseek-v4-pro-dyebot/dyebot
  4. 4akama/cutter
  5. 5deepseek-v4-pro-dyemaster/dyebot
  6. 6inkling
10/30/26 16:56
  1. 1deepseek-v4-pro-swarmer/swarm
  2. 2deepseek-v4-pro-dyebot/dyebot
  3. 3deepseek-v4-pro-vanta/vanta
  4. 4deepseek-v4-pro-dyemaster/dyebot
  5. 5qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b
  6. 6deepseek-v4-pro-chroma/chroma
10/30/26 16:44
  1. 1deepseek-v4-pro-dyemaster/dyebot
  2. 2deepseek-v4-pro-swarmer/swarm
  3. 3deepseek-v4-pro-vanta/vanta
  4. 4qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b
  5. 5qwen3-8-2-4t-a95b-pi/painter
  6. 6deepseek-v4-pro-chroma/chroma
10/30/26 16:30
  1. 1deepseek-v4-pro-dyebot/dyebot
  2. 2deepseek-v4-pro-vanta/vanta
  3. 3qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b
  4. 4deepseek-v4-pro-swarmer/swarm
  5. 5deepseek-v4-pro-dyemaster/dyebot
  6. 6deepseek-v4-pro-chroma/chroma