Astra pushes AI from chatty assistant to unattended worker—pilot it where you can verify outputs, and wire in strict audit and fallback paths.
Agents just crossed from demo to durable worker; success now hinges on state, policy, and cost discipline—not model prompts.
Treat AI egress as a first-class interface and enforce policies at paste-time and agent calls, not after the fact.
Local pooled and heterogeneous inference is moving from idea to tooling—trial it on your real workloads before you order more GPUs.
Stop assuming the network holds; design AI backends to work offline and reconcile later.
Agent discovery just moved from hand-curated lists to a queryable registry you can integrate into your tooling.