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GPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in six hours

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10 points by ortusdux · 5 comments

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cantaloupe

The original blog post of the person who orchestrated the attempt:

https://carter.church/writeups/the-letter-to-marmont/

ortusduxOP

Link to X thread: https://x.com/CarterWChurch/status/2105167567706816690?ref_s...

"What makes this impressive isn't actually the codebreaking, but that Astra completed the entire multi-modal workflow in ~6 hours from a single image and goal."

z3ratul163071

amazing. can it also not butcher my medium size code base every time i give it a task?

hansonkd

I mean is this good? How do we measure how "unsolvable" these codes are vs just unsolved because they are esoteric, uninteresting, and useless?

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