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Evan’s submission makes use of a new technique

A Spring into AI field note from Mar 1, 2026, pointing to Evan Rhea’s Week 3 Kraken Memory-Smash submission and the technique behind it.

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Evan’s submission here makes use of a new technique, which I’ll cover either later tonight or tomorrow.

Yes, Evan has a slight unfair advantage in that he saw me today and talking with me in person is an instant 10x improvement on any AI related task :-)

Attached submission

Week 3 of Spring Into AI 2026: We Built a Kraken You Can Train

For Week 3, Evan built Kraken Memory-Smash: a browser game where you teach a friendly Kraken which coastal houses to smash, then test whether it remembers the sequence.

Read Evan’s Substack postView the site writeup

Field-note signal

The public note is short, but it records something important about the competition: technique transfer mattered. A conversation, a framing shift, or a small workflow pattern could change the quality of a submission fast enough to show up in the next build.