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Vibe Coding Through the Berghain Challenge
How my AI coding partner and I obsessed over a nightclub bouncer optimization problem for one intense day
Curiosity Gap: Mysterious billboard → high shareability Community Solving: Group puzzle → network effects Status Competition: Technical leaderboard → ego investment Infrastructure Struggles: “Can’t access” → scarcity psychology Clear Success Metrics: Rejection count goes down = dopamine hit Immediate Feedback: Test algorithm, get result instantly Competitive Context: 30,000 people trying to beat you Deep Complexity: Simple rules, emergent mathematical beauty AlgorithmRejectionsKey InnovationWhy It FailedRBCR781Dual variables✅ (our winner)RBCR2823+ Feasibility oracleToo conservativeUltimate798+ Ensemble methodsCompeting signalsUltimate2789+ Momentum termsOversmoothingUltimate3795+ LookaheadUnpredictable randomnessPerfect812+ “Mathematical perfection”HubrisApex802+ Kitchen sinkToo much complexityEvery addition made the algorithm more complex but less effective.
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