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Astra is a disaster

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6 Sept
Astra is a disaster
OPINION · WHAT · OpenAI
Other feeds and industry voices
17 Oct
Astra (dot) finding security bugs

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>My dot is reviewing PRs (unprompted) by reading my gmail and responding in our chat session since it doesn’t have Github access. (Public

OPINION · HOW · OpenAIOPEN STORY
20 Sept
Did they nerf Astra?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>It used to do really well with high context and be smart, but now its making a lot of mistakes and just not able to handle the same workload it

OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
29 Sept
Astra 6.1 delay?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Are we at a place where frontier LLMs are hitting the laws of diminishing returns hard, so Open AI / Anthropic / etc are doing more and more

OPINION · WHERE · OpenAIOPEN STORY
7 Sept
Unlikely popular opinion...Astra is incredibly over hyped for coding.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm not suggesting it doesnt have real value and advances over previous models but after spending the past several days coding with it - the

OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
11 Sept
Is it only me?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Since the roll out of the Astra, I am using it for planning and audits and complex sensitive tasks, but now I feel like I miss Sol. Sol was a

OPINION · HOW · OpenAIOPEN STORY
20 Sept
Either astra is nerfed, or they never really gave is access

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>the more i use gpt 6 on any level of reasoning the more i am underwhelmed . its complete trash seems even worse that 5.6 terra.. really giving me

OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
3 Oct
Astra is great, but Opus 5.5 is next level

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I have been using ChatGPT almost exclusively for the last years. Only with the recent downgrades in usage and price increases have I started

OPINION · WHERE · OpenAIOPEN STORY
7 Sept
Astra cannot even complete 1 prompt without hitting 100% usage limit

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Can't even use it lol. Trash.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &#32; <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gosumage"> /u/gosumage </a>

OPINION · WHAT · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
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