GPT 6 (Non-Astra) Underdelivers: Devs Report Prompt Misreads, UI Rewrites, and Long-Task Failures
vaishnavsm · reddit · 2026-09-27
A developer reports that GPT 6 (non-Astra) has been frustratingly worse than expected — the worst experience since the 5.3 era:
- Sol misinterprets prompts and rewrites UI unprompted (turning charts into card-based lists)
- Mistakes of a kind unseen at the frontier for 6 months, behaving like a passive-aggressive genie
- Latency unchanged, ruling out a thinking-budget issue
- Long-running tasks no longer trustworthy
The author's headcanon: OpenAI renamed 6 Sol to Astra, promoted Terra to Sol, and kept Luna — explaining the missing Terra. The thread asks whether others are seeing the same regression.
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