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26 Turns out, AI can actually build competent Minesweeper clones — Four AI coding agents put to the test reveal OpenAI's Codex as the best, while Google's Gemini CLI as the worst

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Tom's Hardware · today 10:04 EDT

Turns out, AI can actually build competent Minesweeper clones — Four AI coding agents put to the test reveal OpenAI's Codex as the best, while Google's Gemini CLI as the worst

Ars Technica took four popular coding agents available today and asked them to make a Minesweeper clone, to see which one comes out on top. OpenAI's Codex produced the closest to a ready-to-shop version, while Mistral and Anthropic both performed respectably well. It was Google's Gemini that just completely gave up.

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