Two-agent Pac-Man: Astra strategizes, 'Jev' executes — built in 20 min with Codex
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-09-17
A counterintuitive demo where 'Jev' plays Pac-Man steered by Astra: Astra formulates the strategy while 'Jev' executes it in milliseconds. The author sees potential in combining lightweight executor models with larger reasoning models — and notes the whole thing was built in 20 minutes using Codex.
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