Opus-powered agent beats two Pokémon Red gyms for under $2 in tokens
Boydbme · reddit · 2026-09-17
A developer is running "Jev", an agent playing Pokémon Red in real time via a harness built with Opus (called Opus 5 in the post), streaming the run publicly. Jev has already beaten two gyms, with total token costs so far under $2 — a neat live demo of long-horizon agent decision-making and its cost.
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