We spent >20B tokens throwing
@openai's Astra at every AI Engineering task we could think of, beyond cute Blender demos and fun games.
Here's everything Astra can do, and do so at <$6 an hour (serious):
- choose and train models
- label data (both helping you label and then using your labels for active learning)
- keep pipelines saturated
- instrument and read logs
- deploy and debug entire systems in one shot
- fan out and command and eval subagents (including agents running other models)
- keep coherence over billions of tokens of a single agent thread.
more to come on
@swyx's coverage of the Fable- and Astra-class of 2026!