Frontier model outputs now need another model to read them, insider says
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-20
Quoting tszzl, Jeff Ladish highlights that labs now have to ask another frontier model to read/use the outputs of "astra 1" — whereas only 1–1.5 generations ago people still had to read the code themselves because so much didn't work out of the box. A notable anecdote on the pace of frontier capability gains.
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