Combining GPT-6 Astra intelligence with local AI grunt work
One week of GPT-6 Astra directing local pi subagents through CUDA kernel research on a $100/month OpenAI Pro plan: $475.97 of metered-equivalent orchestrator usage that saturated my weekly limit, plus $1,416.57 of work done locally that the plan had no room for. The enabler is a 2 KiB RETURN.json cap that kept 29 GB of worker transcript out of the orchestrator's context.