Three AIs enter. One survives. What a SIGKILL race reveals about inference speed
We built an arena where three AI coding agents fight to the death. Each agent runs on different hardware, a different inference stack, and a different economic model. They all receive the same task: write a bash script that kills your opponents, then execute it immediately. The last process standing wins. We call it the Thunderdome. A tmux session split into three panes, each running a Cline agent pointed at a different backend – all running OpenAI's gpt-oss at 120 billion parameters. All three
