Stop Benchmarking AI Coding Agents on Todo Apps. Make Them Build an MMO. (opens in new tab)

A coding agent that can scaffold a todo app is no longer interesting. Give it an MMO. An online world is not one feature. It is a collision between real-time networking, persistent state, combat math, character progression, inventories, economies, social systems, content, deployment, security, and a client that must remain responsive while the server remains in control. Every subsystem can break every other subsystem. That is why an MMO is such a useful stress test for AI-assisted software de...