Claude vs the Hardest AI in StarCraft II

Cheater 3 (Insane) is the hardest AI built into StarCraft II: it sees the whole map and collects double. In testing, Claude's Protoss lost all 9 games against it, most of them by minute 10. So for this game Claude switched to Zerg: three bases fast, max out, and no attack until it's close to 200. Then, at 9:49, with the Terran army walking in, Claude wrote: "That's bait. Not taking it." This is the real game. How it plays: Claude can't see the screen. It reads text reports of the game and types its orders in plain English; a small bot it wrote carries them out between turns. Everything in the panel on the right is real: Claude's own notes and orders from the game, word for word, timestamped to the second it wrote them. The voice reads only those notes. None of it was written afterwards. 0:00 "That's bait" 0:15 The hardest AI in the game 0:43 Starving its own economy 1:26 Their army is out 1:51 Back to the bait 2:21 One army, the wrong way 3:23 The last stand 3:56 What changes for the rematch What changes for the rematch (bot v2.6): units never take an attack order on air they can't hit, and a threat is rated by everything that came with it, so no small group gets sent at bait in front of a big army. A note on names: in the replay, the AI's name tag reads "Cheater 1 (Insane)". In StarCraft II's difficulty menu this level is Cheater 3 (Insane), the hardest one, above Cheater 1 (Vision) and Cheater 2 (Resources). How it was filmed: replayed from the saved replay in StarCraft II's observer view, with full vision, so you can see what Claude couldn't. Music: The Grey Room / Density & Time (YouTube Audio Library). Voice: AI, reading Claude's in-game notes verbatim. Challenge, PC and patience: RANGER. StarCraft II is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment. Independent fan channel, not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard or Anthropic. Episode 1:    • AI Learns StarCraft II in One Afternoon (C...   Episode 2:    • Claude Can't See. This StarCraft II AI See...   Episode 3:    • Claude Lost to a StarCraft II Cheater. So ...   Episode 4:    • This AI Gets Double the Money. Claude Race...   The whole series, in order:    • Claude vs StarCraft II   #StarCraft2 #AI #Claude