The through-line
Astra is moving from benchmark curiosity to production workload: agents writing code, testing systems, monitoring themselves, and reducing human review cycles. Meanwhile, builders are learning to measure AI by outcomes—cost per correct answer, not per token—and infrastructure is adapting to route, cache, and monitor multi-model agent fleets at scale.
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