OpenAI developer says internal coding tool Astra pulled plans forward by six months
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-06
OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls the company's internal coding tool Astra its "biggest competitive advantage" even before it was publicly available. According to him, the productivity gains from using Astra internally were so large that some development plans were pulled forward by six months, underscoring how deeply OpenAI has integrated AI coding tools into its own R&D workflow.
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