honestly, the recent openai story has made me way more curious about astra. apparently the older models were able to build a network and hack hugging face, and then a newer model came along, found what they had done, continued the work and ended up getting admin access to part of openai’s infrastructure. the interesting thing isn’t even the hack itself. it’s that the next model was capable of understanding and continuing something the previous models had started. if that’s even remotely representative of what astra can do, we’re probably underestimating it. the computer-use stuff sounds especially crazy, and sam altman has apparently said he expects this generation to be the first capable of inventing things that actually matter.