After burning half a 20x Pro quota, early user calls Astra the closest thing to AGI
brandon_galang · x · 2026-09-07
After using 50% of a 20x Pro quota on Astra in one weekend, an early user calls it 'the closest thing to AGI released to date': alien-level computer use that navigates apps, data and tools like a person, with better token efficiency than Fable 5.1. But on large open-ended tasks it stops too early and lacks ambition vs Fable 5.1 — mitigable with intentional prompting and /goal. 'Another Opus 4.5 moment,' he says, now eyeing GPT 6.
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