Factorio agents can use executed Python programs to develop complicated policies that human players would otherwise have to devise on the fly, giving the agents an advantage in policy development.

“because they execute Python programs,”

“come up with quite complicated policies which a human player would have to kind of develop on the fly so in that sense the agent has an advantage but when we kind of track the number of ticks it took to execute these policies against the number of ticks a human player would spend to get somewhere the gulf between models playing this and humans playing it is absolutely enormous um”