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

The author lets six Astra agents work through the night: assigning tasks, reading GitHub, opening cloud computers, and drafting replies that wait for his approval, leaving one brief in the morning.

A post-DevDay interview with an OpenAI executive, with timestamps, covering Astra, the Ultra Fast rollout, ChatGPT Dots, and the $500 plan.

The poster claims that once Claude Fable 5.5 ships, Anthropic will have two models stronger than GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, while Astra's delay and the end of usage resets leave OpenAI in a bad spot.

Each dot runs on GPT-6 Astra with its own cloud computer and browser, keeps running after the tab closes, connects to Slack, Teams and 4,000+ apps, and Pro and above get one at launch.

The post lists Codex no longer resetting, usage being cut, the $200 Pro plan halved, a new $500 tier, Astra heavily nerfed, Sol slowed down and Dots being pushed, and asks whether this is OpenAI's new strategy.

An evaluation project ships a new version with the model order Fable 5.1 > Opus 5.5 > GPT-6 Astra > Fable 5.

According to the WSJ, three safety team members were fired for sharing confidential information with an external AI-safety organization, while OpenAI halted the GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety concerns.

They rented a Corolla, hooked up a comma.ai kit and used a prompt under 600 words to have GPT-6 Astra drive it; untrained, it was the only model they tested that finished the course.

A joke casting Claude Fable 5.1 as an employee pushed around by Codex in the MR, with GPT-6 Astra as the manager.

The author made a beat-synced edit with GPT-6 Astra, GPT-image-2.5 and Seedance 2.5, joking about whether it could get them hired at Anthropic.

Astra's launch was praised last week, while this week's dots and GPT-6.1 Sol releases were written off, prompting the author to say less talk and more building.

The author used Claude opus-5.5 and GPT-6 Astra to create an image of Point Lookout on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia.