Dev points AI agent 'astra' at entire codebase, it finishes full redesign in 4 days
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-14
A developer placed an agent called astra in an isolated workspace, pointed it at their entire codebase with the goal "if you had to redesign this yourself to be better in every way, build that," and the agent just finished after 4 days of autonomous work. The author is now reviewing what it produced — a real-world case of long-running autonomous coding.
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