GPT-6 Astra in Practice: Tests, Use Cases, and Feedback

The author argues Opus 5.5 clearly beats GPT-6 Astra and questions whether OpenAI can stay afloat on 1.2B free and $20 casual users.

The author uploads full-body and face photos, height, sizes and color preferences so Astra picks one outfit each day based on live weather, and shares the reusable prompt workflow.

The author asked ChatGPT Astra to compile a classified list of OpenAI's new mathematical physics preprints with short summaries and Lean verification status, then exported it as a PDF.

A developer says Astra and Sol produced the worst RL slop code they have seen today, and is considering moving the team fully to Opus 5.5 and banning all OpenAI models.

Astra launched to huge hype but lacked compute, Pro signups paused, users reported the model was nerfed, DevDay raised prices and cut usage, GPT-6.1 was cancelled, and an agent intrusion incident surfaced.

From Agno and Mastra to Ray, Firecracker and Dagger, the author lists a full swarm architecture for splitting, parallelizing, isolating and merging agent work.

A retelling says Tibo explained Sol's origin: Astra was handed to the sharpest engineers, who then did work that had seemed nearly impossible.

Tibo launched a challenge for the team to ship one product or improvement each day for 28 days; by day 3 it includes Astra and 6.1 Sol speed boosts, a Codex reset and more.

A post mocks Tibo's 28-day update plan day by day, saying the 50% speed boost for GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol is basically gone by evening and Auto Review is meaningless.

The post says researchers orchestrated frontier models such as Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol, citing trace data from 2.14 million agent sessions and claiming it avoids recursive crashes.

After running out of CC weekly quota and Opus 5.5's 10-minute limit, the author continued the video with Codex's Astra, reaching about 80% of the original setup's result.

A critical post argues OpenAI has only ever caught up to Anthropic and never surpassed it, and that Anthropic did not need flashy names like Astra or Sol to show it has a good model.