Maven launches $750 agentic software factory course; GPT 6 Astra said to allow mid-convo reasoning effort changes without cache invalidation
intellectronica · x · 2026-09-06
- Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Eleanor Berger are teaching a two-week Maven course, Build Your Agentic Software Factory, on setting up agents that build software continuously in the background: you describe outcomes, supply context and constraints, and define verification.
- Pricing: $750 very early bird (through Sept 13), $850 early bird (through Oct 1), $950 full price; next cohort Oct 12–22, 2026. Students leave with a working app and a repeatable delegate-and-verify workflow.
- The author also claims (unverified) that GPT 6 Astra lets you change reasoning effort mid-conversation without invalidating the context cache — start at astra light (sol medium), then crank up thinking only when the task warrants it.
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