GPT-6 Astra's First Draft Fooled Every's CEO: Big Writing Upgrade, But Some Bad Habits
every · x · 2026-09-26
Every published a deep vibe check of OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model. Key findings:
- Astra's first draft of the review, written from a single prompt, fooled co-founder and CEO Dan Shipper into thinking staff writer Katie Parrott wrote it ("Tbh I didn't realize this wasn't you")
- Shipper tested Astra by asking it to write a blog post about itself; the result was a fairly balanced article weighing the model's pros and cons based on information pulled from Every's Slack
- Verdict: Astra is a big upgrade at writing, operating software and visual design — crisp, to-the-point sentences with few AI-isms — but Anthropic's Fable still has better instincts for building a product
- Shipper has adopted Astra as his daily writing companion
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