Steve Yegge Tries GPT-6 Astra: Delightful Writing, Reckless Execution
Steve_Yegge · x · 2026-09-23
Veteran engineer Steve Yegge shares his first impressions of GPT-6 Astra, calling the experience delightful and praising its natural, vivid writing — even about Emacs functions.
The key difference from Claude's Fable:
- Fable (Claude) is careful: it records and plans your request before starting work, as if the power could be cut any second.
- Astra runs in 100% Leeroy Jenkins mode: it charges into the task immediately, which he finds as scary and fun as the new Resident Evil movie.
Yegge says he'll stick with Fable for serious work for now — highlighting a subtle design difference in whether models force-plan before executing.
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