AI agent autonomously works 24 hours straight to build an 18-hole golf course
Ror_Fly · x · 2026-09-10
Developer RorFly reports that an AI agent called "Astra" kept working autonomously for 24 hours — unprompted — on a golf course design project. Given only the goal of simulating an 18-hole course on real terrain, it studied MacKenzie, Doak, Coore and Dye, compared Sardinian and Tasmanian sites, and fit fairways to LiDAR topographic data.
- Cleared a 2.18M-triangle terrain solve; produced a 1.6M-triangle browser model
- Redesigned all 18 fairways; bunkers grew from 19 to 119, with sand spines and staggered landing bays
- Hole 12 offers a safe 129-yard vs bold 49-yard approach
- Built 35 stone steps, 9 resting runs, reshaped greens on holes 4, 8 and 17, with 42 golfer-height viewpoints
- Every exported mesh triangle was verified
A striking demo of long-horizon agent autonomy on a real engineering task.
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