Gary Marcus cites hands-on review: Astra is the best planner but a terrible coder
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-07
Gary Marcus quotes a detailed two-day hands-on review of GPT-6 Astra, highlighting its weaknesses: poor execution — awful code, tons of mistakes, can't build even trivial action sequences, "acts first and thinks later," and has never delivered a bug-free result on the first try; building projects with it is "painful."
The original review also credits Astra's strengths: currently the best planner, tackling complex technical tasks thoroughly and unconventionally, and the world's best auditor/reviewer, finding tricky bugs even advanced QA teams miss. Before Astra, only Sol earned that trust.
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