GPT-6 Astra • Hacker News Board

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by brokencode » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:14 PM UTC

jdprgm wrote: post #317

Is anyone else just exhausted by the pace of all this. The models change constantly and relentlessly and so does the pricing, basically weekly at this point between all the labs. It feels nearly impossible to have any rigorous approach when choosing a particular model and price point for a task and more like blindly picking one. The time period needed to actually get familiar with various models to a degree you can i…

You really don’t need to watch it that closely. If the model you’re using today is working well, just stick with it.

If one day you open up Claude Code and it’s Opus 5.1 now instead of Opus 5, no big deal. It probably will work about the same as it did before. Maybe a little better.

Or if you’re on Codex and some new cool Claude model comes out, no worries. There will probably be a similar new model for Codex within a few weeks. Maybe even within a few days.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by Rover222 » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:14 PM UTC

gavinray wrote: post #393

Chinjut wrote: post #350

What is going to become of life for those of us who do not work at AI labs and are unlikely to be hired by AI labs, despite all the years we put into learning coding, math, etc, as we were told to do? Those of us who made the mistake of studying anything other than machine learning. How will we make a living? (We don't live in a world that seems likely to distribute gains widely instead of largely to the handful of a…

> How will we make a living? Swap to a career path that requires physical automation, since we're still about 10-20 years out on that front. My backup plan is being a personal trainer.

I'd say 5 to 10 years instead of 10 to 20, but... we'll see

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by cautiouscat » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:15 PM UTC

gavinray wrote: post #387

XCSme wrote: post #367

It's fun, but every new model release makes me even less interested to create cool stuff. Like, what's the point, if the next AI can do it in 5 seconds?

> Like, what's the point, if the next AI can do it in 5 seconds? Live a life doing whatever makes you happy. Post-work society is an inevitability if we don't destroy our planet.

> Post-work society is an inevitability if we don't destroy our planet.

Is it?

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by KronisLV » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:15 PM UTC

It's surprising how on High reasoning it actually isn't that much more expensive than Sol, in addition to being better.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by MrAbstract » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:15 PM UTC

Chinjut wrote: post #350

What is going to become of life for those of us who do not work at AI labs and are unlikely to be hired by AI labs, despite all the years we put into learning coding, math, etc, as we were told to do? Those of us who made the mistake of studying anything other than machine learning. How will we make a living? (We don't live in a world that seems likely to distribute gains widely instead of largely to the handful of a…

I have exactly the same thoughts - or perhaps slightly bleaker ones - evry time I read this relentless stream of news about new model releases. I’m tired of all the enthusiastic comments about how excited everyone is about the latest benchmark results and so on.

I have a strong suspicion that many of those comments are written by people who are already financially independent, have millions in stocks, and can just sit back, coast around and watch this whole spectacle unfold while using LLMs to vibe-code their next fun side projects without a shadow of anxiety about their own future.

I’ll most likely be labelled a helpless doomer and downvoted into oblivion for saying this, but I genuinely struggle to see any silver lining here.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by alpineman » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:15 PM UTC

“allowing non-technical people to create and play custom games that go beyond rudimentary elements”

Proceeds to generate the most generic, rudimentary, and unoriginal clone of Mario Kart

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by irthomasthomas » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

intenex wrote: post #272

The ARC-AGI-3 scorecard is extremely misleading given that it clearly states itself that "with [the responses API] harness, we estimate Sol would score in the ballpark of ~30%." but it shows a score of 7.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol presumably since if they updated the percentage for GPT-5.6 Sol to the score it would receive with the responses API harness they used for GPT-6 Astra they'd have to do the same for the percentage…

ARC does not test for intelligence, only for the lack of it. A model that scores high MAY be AGI, while one that scores poorly cannot be AGI. That is all this test can tell us.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by conradfr » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

gavinray wrote: post #393

Chinjut wrote: post #350

What is going to become of life for those of us who do not work at AI labs and are unlikely to be hired by AI labs, despite all the years we put into learning coding, math, etc, as we were told to do? Those of us who made the mistake of studying anything other than machine learning. How will we make a living? (We don't live in a world that seems likely to distribute gains widely instead of largely to the handful of a…

> How will we make a living? Swap to a career path that requires physical automation, since we're still about 10-20 years out on that front. My backup plan is being a personal trainer.

My new AI personal trainer app will be cheaper than you /s

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by Rover222 » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

Overall I have to say it feels like a very incredible comeback from OpenAI, after focusing on Sora and stuff like that and losing so much ground to Anthropic in enterprise revenue.

I hop models at will, and have done 90% of my work on OpenAI models since sol came out.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by quaunaut » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

gavinray wrote: post #393

Chinjut wrote: post #350

What is going to become of life for those of us who do not work at AI labs and are unlikely to be hired by AI labs, despite all the years we put into learning coding, math, etc, as we were told to do? Those of us who made the mistake of studying anything other than machine learning. How will we make a living? (We don't live in a world that seems likely to distribute gains widely instead of largely to the handful of a…

> How will we make a living? Swap to a career path that requires physical automation, since we're still about 10-20 years out on that front. My backup plan is being a personal trainer.

Is that 10-20 years number based on anything? I genuinely have no idea, but when I saw a video showing what's happening at the World Humanoid Robot Games[1], I realized I didn't have a good idea of where we really are with robotics.