alt Hacker NewsNeat, but "did it entirely on its own" is incongruous with "developing the necessary Python and C++ software for an Enigma simulator".
I'd start by asking how much of that generated software is novel, or easily found on the web? Then, how much of the breaking process was offloaded to that software? If Astra is just handing off tasks to another computer, then I'm not sure how much credit it deserves. Finally, it looks like Astra provided some useful insights which narrowed down the search. Were these insights cribbed from elsewhere?
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Would you give much credit to someone who ignored a nearby hammer and pounded in a nail with his fist?
I'll just note that building an enigma simulator and/or code cracker is a common course project and there are several tutorials on doing so.
Why does any of this matter? Llm is a memory of knowledge, of course it got what it got based on prior work.
It can code enigma simulator from the algorithm. That's not really a problem. Astra will send computing to programs, LLMs are not good at computing themselves, why is this a big deal?