OpenAI Astra burns credits fast, but simplifying AGENTS.md cuts the hand-holding
iamsensi · reddit · 2026-09-08
- The poster runs 3-4 projects nearly 24/7 on OpenAI Astra (medium/low tier) and confirms credit burn is fast — but output now goes far beyond demos: Astra completes tasks that kept Sol stuck for hours, and his game has working skate mechanics.
- Key tweak: after wiping and radically simplifying his skills and AGENTS.md files, Astra needs much less hand-holding, likely reducing wasted tokens (unmeasured).
- Takeaway: most instruction files were built around Sol's quirks; revisit those assumptions when moving to Astra instead of carrying them over.
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