Biggest knock on Astra so far is that…

Biggest knock on Astra so far is that when I raise an issue during a long-running task, it will acknowledge my concern and then stop all work. Then I put the Tim Cook anecdote with "then why are you still here?" in my AGENTS.md and that seems to have fixed it.

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