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In this episode of BASELINE, Ian speaks with Ying Chan, CTO of The Innovation Game. As AI accelerates software development, much of the conversation focuses on speed.

But speed does not make systems resilient. Incentives do. The Innovation Game is a protocol designed to incentivise the development of state-of-the-art algorithms through open participation. Innovators submit code. Benchmarkers evaluate performance. Incentives shape behaviour.

The strongest solutions emerge. Ying explains why AI-generated code is a powerful tool for first-pass execution, but not a substitute for strategic thinking or adversarial design. While models can interpolate from existing knowledge, pushing the frontier still requires human judgment, intuition, and carefully aligned incentives.