Teaching an AI to Play Dwarf Fortress: The Idea

I'm Ryan Miller. I've been a software engineer for over twenty years, mostly building web applications, mostly on the front end. I'm also a fantasy nerd -- I play tabletop RPGs, paint miniatures, read way too many fantasy novels. I'd already been using LLMs to build AI-powered tools for my tabletop hobby, and I wanted to try something harder. Not just extracting data, but making decisions in a live, complex system.