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I've always said that appending "use python" to your prompt is a magic phrase that makes 4o amazingly powerful across a wide range of tasks. I have a whole slew of things in my memories that nudge it to use python when dealing with anything even remotely algorithmic, numeric, etc

Playing tic tac toe could be such a basic topic that there is relatively little information on the internet about how to "always" win.

On the other hand writing a piece of code to solve Tic Tac Toe sounds like it could be a relatively common coding challenge.

Win or stalemate? because a stalemate is the likely scenario against a somewhat competent opponent IMO.

Ahh good correction, I meant the winning strategy is to force a stalemate.

In all of my tests Claude nor 4o can even get to a stalemate, they just make incorrect moves.

It might be the way you're formatting the input. I wonder how they perform when state updates are shared via natural language vs ASCII art vs image

I tried a bunch of different ways. It wasn’t the prompt or input format.