Databricks rolls out AI coding tool Astra to all 3,500 engineers
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-18
Databricks opened its internal AI coding tool Astra to roughly 3,500 engineers and drew several notable takeaways from the rollout. The tweet links out to the detailed findings.
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