Early user: OpenAI's Astra is the first model making real progress on an extreme-complexity task
mrjonfinger · x · 2026-09-06
User mrjonfinger reports that after years of every model feeling like "swimming in mud" on an unreasonably complex task, OpenAI's Astra is the first showing meaningful forward motion, though he's unsure it can fully land it.
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