OpenAI details GPT-6 Astra quality fixes: misfiring legacy skills, experiment hit 4-5k users
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-13
Addressing reported quality issues with GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux posted a reset and postmortem of fixes:
- Some skills written for previous models were triggering too often or preventing the model from checking its work;
- An opt-in context-management experiment caused early stops or replies to older messages — now disabled, with an estimated 4-5k users affected;
- Badly configured engines that measurably degraded quality for a long tail of traffic were removed.
The team says additional minor improvements have shipped and the experience should feel significantly better.
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