Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia

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Round 1 — Claude Opus 4. 6 (February 2026) My first prompt was simple: "in this original code there 6502 assembly code for prince of persia, use the save level files and try to do it in c# console. " Over two days Opus 4. 6 produced a C# console game, then a level editor, then a Raylib graphics version. But it didn't play like Prince of Persia. The C# code reads everything from my own copy of the DOS game at runtime.

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