Ask AI to design a system to win Factorio, not to play it: 1000x faster via mechanistic software
RexDouglass · x · 2026-11-11
Someone had Astra play Factorio directly: it wins, but takes forever and burns tokens. Reframed as "design a system to win Factorio," Astra instead builds software that runs 1000x faster. The takeaway: mechanistic software gives you cheap leverage, and LLMs can write mechanistic software on demand — a counterintuitive but practical lesson in agent task design.
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