Leaked Astra Reasoning Skips Spaces, Apparently to Save Tokens
Substantial-Dog-6713 · reddit · 2026-09-23
A Reddit user reports what looks like a leaked patch of OpenAI Astra's internal reasoning at Max effort. After a tool-call script error cut off a previous response and the user replied with just '?', Astra generated an entire reasoning chain in about 2 seconds — with almost no spaces, apparently compressing output format to save tokens.
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