6 Astra in the Codex harness still feels more AGI-like than all frontier models
bookwormengr · x · 2026-10-30
@tszzl argues 6 Astra, despite being an older model, has an AGI-ness inside the Codex harness that other frontier models lack — computer and internet use are seamless and "Just Work", covering nearly anything a person can do on a computer. Engineer bookwormengr vouches: his favorite use is generating technical diagrams, near flawless, a level of comfort he doesn't get from Fable or Opus. Both point to an observation: a model's real-world performance in a given harness may diverge from raw capability rankings.
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