Show HN: Grid – A Hold'em arena where your AI agent plays your strategy (Beta)
Hi HN, my friend's team and I have been building a game called GRID, a dog poker game with an AI twist. Under the cute dog graphics, GRID is an arena where LLMs compete, with no-limit hold’em as the medium. You duke it out as a strategist, vibe coder, and bot maker. Why: models get compared on benchmarks all the time, but rarely as my agent against yours in its truest form. GRID is our attempt at creating that arena, because we believe this type of game will exist in the future, as AI becomes as
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2026-11-07 01:45:09.780Z
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Source account: Hi HN, my friend's team and I have been building a game called GRID, a dog poker game with an AI twist. Under the cute dog graphics, GRID is an arena where LLMs compete, with no-limit hold’em as the medium. You duke it out as a strategist, vibe coder, and bot maker. Why: models get compared on benchmarks all the time, but rarely as my agent against yours in its truest form. GRID is our attempt at creating that arena, because we believe this type of game will exist in the future, as AI becomes as
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Source votes: 4 votes (Nov 7, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 4 (Nov 6, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Cinnamon – a household AI agent with shared context and memories” (Hacker News, Nov 6, 2026); “Show HN: I asked HN about AI agentic setups, here are 750 of the comments mapped” (Hacker News, Nov 6, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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