Three Pac-Men — Same Brief, Three Builders

Read it live: https://marlandoj.github.io/three-pac-men/

One Pac-Man brief, given word for word to three builders on 2026-10-22:

• Muse-PacMan — Muse Spark, writing directly in chat
• grok-PacMan — Grok, in a single generation
• workshop-PacMan — Claude Opus 5.5 through the Hermes harness, built as a Zouroboros Workshop factory task

The article embeds all three published games in a live, playable split screen and compares what the builders actually shipped — measured from the files: maze contents counted tile by tile, timing models and ghost AI read from the source, verification evidence weighed. Its conclusion: the models wrote the code, but the processes decided how much of it you should believe.

The games:

• Play: Muse-PacMan · grok-PacMan · workshop-PacMan
• Code: Muse-PacMan · grok-PacMan · workshop-PacMan
• The brief itself: PROMPT.md (identical in all three repos)

License

MIT — see LICENSE.