Turning Astra agents from demos into production systems
Citing Sam Altman's point that untrusted agents won't be used, the article covers sandboxing, scoped permissions, guardrails, tracing and human review for GPT-6 Astra.
Sam Altman on AI agents: “if people can’t trust them, they won’t use them.” that’s the part almost every agent demo skips. the hard problem isn’t getting one impressive run, it’s keeping the system reliable when tools fail, context grows, and agents start touching real business systems. the article below takes that exact problem into production with GPT-6 Astra: sandboxed agents, scoped permissions, guardrails, tracing, persistent sessions, and human review before irreversible actions. instead of asking “how autonomous can we make it?”, the better question is “how much can it safely own before a human needs to step in?” that’s where agent systems stop looking like demos and start becoming infrastructure. watch Sam’s take, then read the full build below.
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