I spent $183 letting GPT-6 Astra play Pokémon Team Rocket Edition with vision only

Same game, same vision-only setup, no game-specific tuning on either side. The model just looks at the screen and presses buttons — the same information a human player gets. 2,000 turns each. Fable 5 spent $113 and is still wandering around the Rocket warehouse. Astra spent $183, already took Apollo's 25,000 and the Egg, and made it to Vermilion for the shipping job. Astra actually plays the game — it knows who to talk to, what to spend on, and that losing means healing up before trying again. Fable 5, with no prior knowledge of this hack, burned a lot of turns and ended up still inside that warehouse. Astra is genuinely expensive, 61% more. But priced per unit of progress, Fable 5 is the pricier one.