Dev says GPT-6 Astra found 4.5x to 176x speedups in his codebase in 5 minutes
charliermarsh · x · 2026-09-05
A developer reports that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra (low) reviewed his codebase and surfaced speedups ranging from 4.5x to 176x within five minutes, calling himself "completely blown away." This is a single anecdotal claim with no reproducible details yet; independent verification is still pending.
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