Ryan Orhan(@rynorhn):this is so fucking cool. carter church gave gpt-6 astra a scanned image of a 217-year-old encrypted letter sent to one of napoleon’s generals. six hours later it had transcribed ~1,300 cipher symbols, found a partial historical key, built a solver for the rest and decoded the letter. and while doing it, it figured out the fucking letter had been dated incorrectly. what an insane time to be alive.

2026.10.01 07:48

this is so fucking cool. carter church gave gpt-6 astra a scanned image of a 217-year-old encrypted letter sent to one of napoleon’s generals. six hours later it had transcribed ~1,300 cipher symbols, found a partial historical key, built a solver for the rest and decoded the letter. and while doing it, it figured out the fucking letter had been dated incorrectly. what an insane time to be alive.