A Non-LLM Agent Called Jev Beat Minecraft's Ender Dragon in Under Nine Minutes for a Dollar
The pairing of Jev — a fast, cheap 'System One' decision engine — with GPT-6 Astra cleared one of gaming's hardest agent benchmarks in 8:43, and the frugality is the story.
Jev and GPT-6 Astra together beat Minecraft's Ender Dragon in 8 minutes and 43 seconds, at a cost of less than $1, according to @rronak_. The number that matters is the dollar. Minecraft has become a serious agent benchmark precisely because defeating the Ender Dragon requires long-horizon planning, resource gathering, and tool use — the exact capabilities that make pure-LLM agents expensive and slow when they have to reason through every step.
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