funny "Robocode has peaked" quote

Since then we've had:
# Precise Intersection
# Precise min/max GFs
# Bullet Shadows
# Kd-trees (and with them, fast log-based targeting)
# Super-survivalist bullet powers
# Gunheat waves
# Genetic tuning of variables
# Shoot-everybody melee gun
# Melee surfing

A lot of these ideas were dependant on wave surfing to begin with, I agree a little with Albert's quote, but it was a bit like saying that now that the transistor (or vacuum tube) was developed, suddenly hardware design was over. I would say no, it has only just begun =) Once we had wave surfing, the same ideas and stats which we used for gun we could adapt for movement, although the lower quantities of data posed a whole new set of problems. I would argue that before wave surfing, the tweaking of movement profiles was much more boring than what we are doing now (although definitely had a lower barrier to entry).