A senior software engineer at Antithesis documents his personal challenge to use their formal verification tool to achieve 'rebirth' in Tetris, a feat previously accomplished by human gamers. Despite extensive testing and optimization of the objective function, the automated approach hit a performance wall at level 160, highlighting the limitations of current formal methods in complex, high-speed state spaces.
Background
Antithesis is a company specializing in formal verification tools designed to find bugs in distributed systems and complex software architectures by exhaustively exploring execution paths.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Jul 3, 2026 at 04:19 AM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10