Engineer uses AI agent pipeline to search Dutch East India Company archives
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Jesse Waites used Claude Code and a tiered pipeline of AI models to search 4.35 million Dutch East India Company archive pages.
A cheap filter model called Jev screened passages, then Claude Haiku read the candidates and checked them against original scans. Waites says the search surfaced a meteorite fall in Maharashtra from 1812, three rhinos sent to Sri Lanka, and three unrecorded eruptions. These findings await specialist review.
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AIJesse Waites used Claude Code and a tiered pipeline of AI models to search 4.35 million Dutch East India Company archive pages. A cheap filter model, Jev, screened passages before Claude Haiku read the candidates and checked them against original scans. The search surfaced a meteorite fall in Maharashtra from 1812, three rhinos sent to Sri Lanka, and three unrecorded eruptions, all pending specialist review.
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