GPT-6 Astra beats Factorio with enemies in 44 in-game hours at ~$4,500 API cost
liminal_bardo · x · 2026-09-11
According to @MiraMira's test logs, GPT-6 Astra has beaten a standard game of Factorio with enemies enabled after nearly 44 hours of in-game time and 4 days 11 hours on a Codex /goal clock. At API pricing the run would have cost about $4,500. The author estimates costs could drop 50x by offloading more work to Luna and providing standard scripts for common tasks. Next test: Astra coaching Muse Spark or Qwen 3.8 27B through a random seed, now that successful logs exist to review.
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