Devs split on GPT-6 Astra: fast and token-cheap but code feels 'alien'; costly stack proposed
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-12
tenobrus' long critique of GPT-6 Astra in the Codex desktop app: fast, token-efficient, with exciting new capabilities — ideal for "just make it work" tasks, but its approaches feel increasingly alien and unsatisfying, "little understanding of or real interest in humans." beffjezos proposes an expensive ideal stack: rip tokens on Astra Fast as deluxe speculative decoding, with Fable 5.1 as a slow, careful debugger of subtle non-local mistakes.
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