GPT-6 Astra: My Experience With OpenAI’s New Frontier Model
Benchmarks, brutal Plus usage, web development, agent delegation, and where Astra actually fits alongside Sol, Terra, Luna, and Claude.
Read the articleEssays on AI models, model releases, guardrails, alignment, company decisions, and the increasingly strange culture forming around systems that keep getting more capable.
Benchmarks, brutal Plus usage, web development, agent delegation, and where Astra actually fits alongside Sol, Terra, Luna, and Claude.
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Optimizing subscription costs, Claude Design, Astra, Codex, and when ADHD hyperfocus makes the $100 plans worth it
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A marketer's perspective on melodramatic X posts, AI-assisted activism, niche-site economics, and what happens when grieving a model becomes commercially valuable
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Hank Green, Taylor Lorenz, social media addiction, and how dopamine became a scientific-sounding way to say you enjoy tech too much
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Sol’s strong reception, the Fable access backlash, and why effective altruism can no longer be separated from the AI race
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On Claude Sonnet 5, Fable 5’s temporary return, companion-user panic, and why Claude Code is becoming my primary work tool
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Why GPT-5.5 became my favorite OpenAI model since GPT-5.1 and 4o
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Anthropic, the pope, and the fight over who gets to define “good” AI
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OpenAI's new default model is willing to play, bringing some welcome chaos to 5.5 Thinking’s order (but never enough)
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The AI users I have the most in common with might be the ones married to their chatbots
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