This run did have some more things different to previous runs, which I think may be somewhat significant:
By coincidence Claude never got a Pokemon that knew Dig - when he acquired the Dig TM, he already had a full party, of which none could learn Dig at all, and later tossed the TM to make inventory space. I believe in Victory Road digging would reset all progress, thus creating a risk of Claude getting more impatient due to having to solve the puzzles again and deciding to dig out without any actual progress. Though this time Claude was able to make good... (read more)
Neuro-sama (the LLM-based AI VTuber) has beaten the game some time ago. As the code isn't open it's not possible to confirm whether the StS AI was done with LLMs though. Would definitiely be interesting to see how frontier LLMs perform!
This run did have some more things different to previous runs, which I think may be somewhat significant:
By coincidence Claude never got a Pokemon that knew Dig - when he acquired the Dig TM, he already had a full party, of which none could learn Dig at all, and later tossed the TM to make inventory space. I believe in Victory Road digging would reset all progress, thus creating a risk of Claude getting more impatient due to having to solve the puzzles again and deciding to dig out without any actual progress. Though this time Claude was able to make good... (read more)