User spends weekend having Astra pixel-compare 17th-century manuscripts to crack an old letter
apples_jimmy · x · 2026-09-22
A user reports spending the whole weekend having Astra try to solve an obscure old letter: the agent went off researching 17th-century manuscripts and comparing scans pixel by pixel, and has actually made some progress — a fun demo of long-horizon agentic research applied to historical documents.
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