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GPT-6 Astra: an automated AI Engineer you can hire for <$6 an hour
The economic reframe is real. When you measure Astra's cost per completed task rather than per token, the hourly-rate narrative makes sense for long-running agentic work. Latent Space's 20B token burn gives this credibility. For builders: this is where you start thinking about replacing human tasks, not augmenting them. The $6/hour framing will spread fast and drive adoption.