Engineer Uses AI Agents to Mine 400 Years of Archives

Inspired by a historian's AI discovery of a new dodo record, a software engineer built agentic workflows to search millions of historical pages in parallel, surfacing a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos and unrecorded volcanic eruptions. The approach chains multiple AI models for filtering and automation.

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