We spent >20B tokens throwing @openai's Astra at every AI Engineering task we could think of, beyond cute Blender demos and fun games. https://latent.space/p/astra 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!