OpenAI employee: 'GPT-6' was far-future shorthand when I joined — Astra arrived as imagined
jeffintime · x · 2026-09-04
An OpenAI employee recalls that 'GPT-6' was internal shorthand for the far future when he joined — the question of what models would look like once truly intelligent. Now that GPT-6 Astra has shipped, he says it's 'weirdly, just like we imagined,' expressing reverence that progress keeps arriving right on schedule.
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