Run agent fleet to translate medieval Japanese parables
A user runs about 10 agents that dig up medieval Japanese Buddhist parables, translate them, and feed them into a custom language-study interface; also uses agents for coding. ·
Done with a custom-built or unnamed agent
- What they did
- The user runs Deepseek through a Deepseek harness with about 30 plugins and heavy customization, juggling 3-4 projects at once. For the parables project, a fleet of 10 agents finds medieval Japanese Buddhist parables, translates them from scratch, and feeds them into a custom language-study interface. For new projects, they give a moderately detailed scope, then steer a rough prototype toward polish.
- How it went
- The source reports a working setup costing maybe $20/week, with a 99% cache hit rate on many long jobs. It gives no results for the translations themselves and no quality assessment.
- Worth knowing
- Costs stay low on long-running jobs because of the high cache hit rate; the user also tried JetBrains IDE integrations for months and disliked them.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
Find [number, e.g. 10] medieval Japanese Buddhist parables from [source or collection, e.g. Konjaku Monogatarishū] that are available online in the original language. For each one, save the original text, a [target language] translation, and a short vocabulary list into a file in a folder called [folder name]. Stop when all [number] parables are saved and give me a short index of titles with source links.
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Source: HN · Nov 5, 2026
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