GPT-6 Astra

@mtsliveSep 25

.@curtis_yarvin says AI doomers got the Hugging Face incident backwards: “GPT-6 didn’t hack Hugging Face. OpenAI did.” "This is a tool of a level of power that we haven't seen before in the past. It's still a tool." "When OpenAI sets up a hacking swarm in a sandbox and says to the AIs, everything you find is simulated, it's completely unsurprising that they would go and hack everything they find to get the reward. It's not GPT-6 that hacked Hugging Face. It's OpenAI that hacked Hugging Face." "We don't see self-driving cars, as they get smarter and smarter, being more prone to have thoughts of car liberation. These things don't seek anything. They hack the rewards." "The smarter they get, the easier they are to control, and the better they are as tools." @urbit

@theoSep 25

Opus 5.5 got my ts-rust port working in 10 hours, and it has been grinding on performance for the last 24 hours. I've been working on this port on and off for about 4 months. I got to ~35% tests passing with GPT-5.6 Sol, and ~85% with GPT-6 Astra. Both models stalled hard once hitting those numbers, and ran in loops with no meaningful progress for days at a time. I've never had "enough Anthropic tokens" to try a Claude model on a port like this. Opus 5.5 feels practically unlimited, so I threw it a "/goal finish the port and make it faster". I can not believe how quickly Opus unblocked the work Astra was stuck on. It may have made this port an actually viable project. Absolutely mind blown right now.

@exm7777Sep 25

Opus 5.5 is the best model launch of the year for me... it couldn't have been better the timing was impeccable, they basically made the GPT-6 releases pointless because this is what we're getting: - better, faster and cheaper than Fable 5.1 - with the same feeling Fable had, the one that made it so good to work with - cheap enough to actually run in prod - limits that aren't that bad anymore so a lot more people can afford it now, which genuinely opens up use cases that were out of reach before they put OpenAI on silent mode for a few days with this one

@rasmicSep 25

We're so unloyal, the way I haven't used astra in the last few days is actually insane OAI what are you going to do?