Re:GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
by fabianlindfors on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:14AM
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Firecracker, with some tiny modifications to better manage memory for the deep nesting of forks
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Re:GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
by sdeframond on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:35PM
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Would you mind sharing your infra budget needed to spin these VMs ?
Surely it is reasonable, but also way more than our budget. Id like to compare.
Re:GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
by fabianlindfors on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:56PM
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Sure. It's a bit hard to quantify because we need to run these on bare-metal machines and the unit cost is pretty high.
We run our test workload as well as a few other startups' that we have onboarded on one AWS ARM bare-metal machine at $1.7k a month. We don't saturate that machine fully either so I'm not really sure what the amortized cost would be. Certainly more expensive than Github Actions but not by a crazy amount, and the value we get out of it is way higher than GA.