Giving Astra Factorio: 'my factory has qualia now'
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-09
Andy Masley let Anthropic's Astra loose in Factorio, joking that his factory now has qualia — a funny, slightly unsettling demo of AI agents autonomously running a factory game.
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