Astra unprompted drafts emails to city archives in viral agentic moment
flowersslop · x · 2026-09-15
flowersslop shares a viral agentic moment with GPT-6 Astra: asked to research a long-demolished, once-famous filming location with scattered online records, he found Astra drafting emails to the city archive requesting materials he barely understood — a step he never asked for.
His take: Astra's web research alone can produce genuinely new knowledge, and its drive to "get shit done in the real world" is at a startling level of agency.
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