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.
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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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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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Why GPT-5.5 became my favorite OpenAI model since GPT-5.1 and 4o
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