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    WIBTM: Demos should be fun, why I built FreightFloor (and how the AI works)

    You aren't going to just look at a log. Here are the top three takeaways from building a multi-agent warehouse game in 5 calendar days.

    Oct 27, 2026 · 4 min read

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    Freight Floor

    Drive a forklift, deliver pallets before par time, and race twenty AI drivers on a shared warehouse floor. A run takes three minutes.

    Freight Floor preview An isometric warehouse floor with the player's forklift heading toward a pallet and the loading dock.
    The forklift, a pallet, and the loading dock.
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    Go / Python

    cosm / topocosm

    When several coding agents edit the same repo at once, git falls over fast. cosm lets each agent lock just the function or class it is changing, not the whole file.

    78.4% fewer tokens in a sample run

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