OpenAI engineer says internal tool Astra pushed product plans 6 months ahead
AccBalanced · x · 2026-09-06
OpenAI engineer Thibault Sottiaux says Astra was probably the company's biggest competitive advantage while it wasn't generally available. Since adopting it, team productivity jumped so much that some plans moved up 6 months and will ship at DevDay instead of mid next year. Several accounts reshared the post, calling it a striking statement about the state of the art.
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