Developers find Astra tuned for 3D but token-hungry on large codebases
Developers including Bindu Reddy report that OpenAI's Astra is heavily tuned for viral 3D generation but consumes excessive tokens. Hands-on tests on large codebases found it overworks and burns tokens, making Fable 5.1 a better fit for hardcore coding.
2026-09-05 ~ 2026-09-07 · 3 related posts
- Episode 1: Analysts: Astra's Real Advance Lies in Spatial Reasoning(2026-09-04, 2 posts)
- Episode 2: Astra vs Fable 5.1: rigorous agent vs human-like intuition(2026-09-05, 4 posts)
- Episode 3: Developers find Astra tuned for 3D but token-hungry on large codebases(2026-09-05, 3 posts)
- Episode 4: Hands-on Tests Show Astra Dominates Vision and Computer Use, but Long Context Lags(2026-09-06, 2 posts)
- Episode 5: Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra Launch 48 Hours Apart at Identical Prices(2026-09-06, 9 posts)
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- Astra spins, guzzles tokens on large codebases; Fable 5.1 wins for hard coding — bindureddy · 2026-09-07