Astra by OpenAI

“they are found completely wanting in certain situations where a human would be more trustworthy and produce better results”

“I’d rather waste compute than brain cycles trying to discern which dials are best for each individual as-hoc query.”

“I'm going to be the highest performer as long as I have access to Astra/Fable. Like, it's not even close.”

“it both identified and thoroughly explained to me several discrepancies and filing nuances that I never before would have ever learned about”

“Astra and Fable are more intelligent than these open weight models and can solve problems that are much more difficult”

“and it solves it (I had a firmware bug in my new laptop where I couldn't charge through USB-C) on the first try”

“With Astra, I feel like we finally had the resources to fully professionalize and supply our software team.”

“$500/month for 40+ hours a week of Astra usage, with ultrafast mode available when you're near the weekly reset has made our jobs so much easier.”

“These models (Argon, Astra, etc) can't operate the robot itself, but would be able to create data to distill into smaller models you can actually utilize.”

“Eventually, by walking through them, it proposed an additional fifth value and from there was able to tie everything together.”

“frontier models (Astra, Fable, Opus 5.5) at some point always end up writing a test that unnecessarily elongates CI”

“Astra was some improvement over 5.6-sol in the sense that I'd "argue less" with it, but still frustrating and still sloppy”

“The difference between Opus 5.5/Astra and earlier models is night and day even if for many coding tasks they're not a revolution.”

“The amount of time I've seen people successfully justify issues based on the fact that Claude/Astra/Codex wrote it is absurd.”

“Yet when I wanted the model to implement the naive surface nets algorithm, Astra Max wrote 5+ allocations on inner loops.”

“I'll wake up with three new different projects, each of them 20% done and having nothing to do with my original goal”

“Astra was the only one that seemed to understand that displacement should happen less the further something is in the distance.”

“Astra's final output feels more polished, has better visual contrast, and the animations between the pages are smoother.”

“There's a lot of chatter on other forums and Reddit about the same thing happening to Astra over the last couple of weeks.”

“it went ahead and disassembled it, found some undocumented APIs, figured out how they worked and gave me sample code to call them.”

“I routinely see Astra extract related functionality into it's own file after it gets past a certain size, unprompted.”

“ability to "send it shopping" and not only get the price/availablity for the options but look thru datasheet for quirks and parameters is very useful”

“The initial dimensions of this phone were one-shot by Codex Astra from the publicly available 2D drawing”

“users (including myself) report the same old gaslighting, hallucination, context rot, cheating, incomprehensibility patterns”

“much much better computer use and 3d modeling capabilities; better subagent orchestration; better and more reliable tool use; slightly worse coding”

“It's great but it probably cannot work on a project longer than a week without introducing architectural blunders”

“It distinguishes 'implementation detail' from 'conceptual measurement' and implements the model in terms of those”

“Astra’s outputs are much more concise while being similarly accurate, they seem more information dense.”

“writes python code modifying the filesystem and then uses nix build to execute those python scripts without asking me for permission”

“with Astra I feel like it's reached the point where it's competent and it just lacks taste in some ways”

“Astra seems to be much more token efficient, probably in part due to the looped transformer architecture”

“They seem to be lacking some taste in that area, but overall I prefer their version to the one I bought.”

“I'm certain if you threw Astra at it on high with a pile of slightly different scans it would do something useful.”

“Astra has so much more detail. It did take 5x more time, but that's usually negligible when it replaces x hours of human output.”

“The models are great at the monotony, like constructing a Gröbner-basis, etc. But they're all still absolutely awful at coming up with new ideas”

“Astra Light blew it out of the water, it provided examples of compilation from real world examples to the IR and spit out way less tokens.”

“Astra could easily 10x every coder”

“it is impressive at computer use and 3D reasoning, and fails in similar ways to 5.6 Sol at similar rates when it comes to coding”

“multiple of the problems Astra solved do have real-world applications in computer science, and perhaps even chip design”

“They also offer (multiple; confusing product lineup!) interactive apps for upscaling video on their own website - Topaz Video and Astra.”