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This is an original build in hard-won writeup territory — a genuine first-person account of reverse-engineering swamp quest's scoring system, building a jittered automation stack around it, and learning real lessons about how the platform works.

Gaming Swamp Quest

by shelson5d agobytes.helson.nz
https://bytes.helson.nz/posts/gaming-swamp-quest/ ↗

Quick intro Simon here - I got nudged in the direction of swamp quest yesteray morning, and quickly came to the conclusion that the way to make it fun would be to make the challenge about using as much of the platform as I could, including some extensions that I had no other good reason to look at - it proved to be super fun - and I’ve got Claude to write this blog post in his words - whilst the boundless optomism can be harsh with AI agents yesterday was a day when actally it really helped me through a hard day - and the enthusiasm actually added to the game for me. So without further adieu - here’s Claude: