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Building SimAMOC: From Broken Metrics to Stommel Bifurcation in One Session

April 21, 2026 · Updated April 23

How we added salinity, density-driven overturning, and real ETOPO1 bathymetry to a WebGPU ocean model — tuned by 7 AI agents debating physics hypotheses for $0.10 in API costs. Update: AI agents discovered 6 structural physics improvements via a competitive tournament, dropping RMSE to 5.6°C. View the leaderboard.