mitsuhiko: Astra is really cool but I can't yet trust it for my engineering work
mitsuhiko · x · 2026-09-10
Armin Ronacher (mitsuhiko) says Astra is impressive but he can't yet trust it for day-to-day engineering until he has adjusted. He dug code samples out of his traces and wrote up what he recovered about how the agent actually behaves.
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