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GPT-6 Astra excels at creative and demonstration-oriented tasks
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I have tested GPT-6 Astra this week. It is a show horse, not a workhorse. Super fun to use and showy, does crazy good stuff, and design-wise it's the most interesting model I've run. But I don't know if I'd use it for a real day to day engineering/product work. It's not as trustworthy as the Fable class; it feels more like Opus weight with prettier output. But it's really fun for vibe coding and landing pages!
Dan Shipper@danshipperSep 3
BREAKING: OpenAI just dropped GPT-6 ASTRA!!! 🚀✨ We’ve been testing it extensively at @every across coding, writing, and knowledge work. My take: it’s a big upgrade from 5.6-Sol, with some frustrating habits that keep it from matching Fable at the top end. Here’s your vibe check: - The best writing model I’ve tried. It’s fast, produces very little slop, and is easy to steer. It’s a good companion for actually working through the writing I do every day. (Not to mention, it one-shotted the first draft of its own vibe check today!) - The computer use is wild. It can go for hours at a time using complicated apps to get work done. It did the first cut of our Fable 5.1 vibe check video...kind of mindblowing - Impressive 3D games and visualizations. It can make beautiful 3D worlds from a single prompt. I one-shotted a historically accurate rendition of the Battle of Waterloo - It can overcomplicate things. (Especially at higher effort levels.) Ask for a simple interface and you get extra labels, buttons, and features everywhere. It has a habit of turning everything into a landing page. It just doesnt quite match Fable's ability to intuitively understand your prompt and do something delightful (without overcomplicating.) Net Result: If you already live in ChatGPT for Work or Codex and can afford it, it’s an easy upgrade from 5.6-Sol. The biggest proof of Astra's effectiveness at helping you do work is our vibe check. We found out it was launching at 3 AM this morning, and had a 4,000 word vibe check + video done by 2 PM. Not possible without this model. I’m reaching for Astra all day, but Fable 5.1 still gets my biggest tasks. On ambitious builds, Fable is better at understanding what I want and taking it further than I would have thought to ask. State of Play: Astra is launching to Enterprise customers today, and the rest of ChatGPT users over the coming days. Now, both OpenAI and Anthropic have a higher class of models that cost more to use. That changes who gets to use frontier AI and how. It's also a new vector of competition between them: Fable and Astra are priced at the same level. We'll see what that means for adoption in the coming days and weeks. read our full vibe check @every today: https://every.to/vibe-check/gpt-6-astra-vibe-check?utm_source=danx&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=gpt_6_astra
