Developer run: Muse Wonder agent playing Pokémon Red fails to reach the first gym
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Meta’s Muse Wonder agent ran Pokémon Red on launch day and failed to beat Brock, getting stuck in Viridian Forest after beginning the forest on turn 208. The run cost $96.06 after about 792 turns (roughly 6 hours) without clearing the first gym. The result shifts attention from benchmark wins to real-world reliability and highlights pricing gaps versus smaller, cheaper model runs that completed the gym.
Why it matters
One developer describes Muse Wonder picking a starter and then wandering Viridian Forest for ~792 turns, burning about $96, without beating the first gym—an illustration of what happens when the agent “refuses to quit.”