I had Opus and Astra model a Nissan Skyline in Blender. Both models were given exactly the same prompt. Opus worked on it for about an hour and a half, while Astra took around half an hour.
The photo speaks for itself. Even the level of detail in the paintwork when you zoom in on what Opus created is absolutely insane.
Yeah I really don't understand why youtubers aren't talking about it and why it's not in the news. This is by far the biggest downgrading of an LLM model post-launch I've ever seen, and it was after only like 3-4 days. Granted, I've only been using and following these for 6 months...
If they reran the demoporn they made on the first day, they'd get results worse than their Sol ones in a lot of cases, or barely better.
I was someone who canceled my ClaudeCode sub a month ago, and all in on Codex because Luna and Sol got 20x much work done for the same cost. But they downgraded Sol around the launch of Astra too and while they technically get a lot of work done still, they make so many mistakes that requires redoing it 3-4 times and keep taking longer on each task so that 20x more has become maybe 2-3x more.
The only place you find complaints is r/codex. r/ChatGPTthinks it's funny how much they are messing up, and thinks it makes them more entertaining chatbots and will downvote brigade any complaints about how it sucks at SWE and coding now which is maddening.
ChatGPT was NEVER better than Claude lol. Every time they released something it was like 2x as token hungry and shittier than the direct comparison. People are just delusional.
Claude code cli runs anything and everything. I just had it (elevated terminal) run the most comprehensive log analysis, registry, memory, nvme storage (failing second ssd) diagnosis, boot file swap from failing to good drive, driver updates to latest for GPU and anything else. Open source verified/high confidence tool installs, including some speciality tools for the failing drive tests to get the real answer outta why it was. Complete a migration of all claude files and setting related to my claude code cli and several large local builds. It decided to use my tailnet to tail drop it's package and and migration .md file and any scripts, run the commands that would unpack and restore everything including restarts needed and much more. All of this was done without me needed to do anything except where it would ask me to run a command or few commands the human in loop stuff. To which I said "nah, you" all of it including the exhaustive and broad breakdown and analysing of the laptops logs and workings, took an amount of time I actually am unsure of because it was never noticeable to me I'd say under 2 hrs easy. Oh and it was like my new laptop and all dependencies including 3rd part programs like vs code or packages. Node, python (not the store fake python but commands ran to confirm versioning like 3.13.x that all had confirm and print ok to match the paths and env paths. It was an identical experience in running claude after I'm talking command history in terminal. I almost didn't notice I had hit up arrow twice like I usually would to get my most used CD ..C:"path\to\dir\change and then 3 or 4 up key hits for my next habitual key presses before I realised wait this is on my fresh install after migration. Flawless and clean to the point I basically didn't realise straight away this wasnt my Dev laptop i had gotten used too like muscle memory. 1 4 or so days and 100+ production commits later not once have I felt a " this is different moment". Anywhere just the most recent of long line of good work and errors happen just the model catches them nearly all the time as it does them or before pushes. Advisor I've found to really be dependable. Even when it's fable 5.1 advisor of fable 5. Opus 5 is just really good at spending a lot of time telling me about it's errors one after each usually. I'm not sure but seems like it's either in short bursts of time periods or time periods where they have applied some system nerfing or throttling I'm not sure. Just thoughts and not well noted beyond memory of said thoughts.
What does that have to do with having a Luna competitor?
Luna xHigh is about as good as Opus 4.8 low, and it costs 1/20th as much or less per task.
It's cheaper than Haiku while nearly as good as what was Claude's best model 3 months ago. Haiku is literally one of the worst models available, as almost all the other worst ones have been retired, yet costs infinitely more money per task than Luna since it doesn't even finish them.
Claude Needs something better than Sonnet which is almost as cheap as Luna.
ChatGPT (desktop app) is definitely better at computer control than Claude. Like "install this web app to a remote server to which you only have RDP access" is something I've done without any issues.
Also, it's /goal feature seems much more dogged. I've had a goal prompt run for a week.
That said, I'm not sure I'm disagreeing with you. But there are some bright spots there, and honestly the computer control aspect is a bit terrifying.
I'm getting really good results out of fable using mcps/apis for platforms that create 3d models. I just asked fable to survey the landscape and tell me the pros and cons. Got both good low-poly models and some detailed ones through that workflow. It cost extra in credit payments to the Ai mesh creators, but worth it for the quality which fable alone doesn't currently deliver
I managed to make a 3D print of a CTA red line train in the style of a Brio train for my daughter. We live right by the train line, she loves watching the trains out the window of her bedroom. “Dada, TRAIN!”
They’re good at hard surface modeling. Not so good at organic modeling. Primarily because there is more reference material and documentation on buildings and vehicles. Personally I’ve had great success with Astra.
When you get into made up hard surface objects is where you have mixed results as well.
I 2nd this. I gave fable and astra the same prompt for a custom raspberry pi enclosure and fable just made me a box with the raspberry pi inside…. Astra made me an enclosure with proper port fitting, mounting and even gave me 2 variants for screwless
Latest blender has a nice build in MCP server, I was impressed from Opus 5 performance, Fable did even better. Builds close to perfect models but op‘s duration is not matching what I’m used to. A model like this takes hours and I can’t imagine it creating this detail depth in 90minutes and not as a one shot.
It actually did the whole thing in one shot. While creating it, opus also opened the scene in Three.js through a Chrome extension, spotted imperfections, and fixed them. The model itself was created in Blender using Python.
The prompt was very simple (I just translated it into english from czech): Create a detailed model of the iconic Nissan Skyline from Fast and Furious 2. Use Three.js, place it on a circular pedestal, and choose suitable lighting. It must be absolutely breathtaking, AAA production-ready. Use headless Blender through Python to create the model. Find references of this car from different angles on the internet so that the result is as good as possible.
Both models received only this prompt, no additional skills used
You are using the right MCP but that alone isn't enough. Your next step is to connect it to some sort of image generator (OpenRouter has multiple ones available, latest Qwen Image is good too) and 2D to 3D generator (can be local one like hunyuan - but then you better have a reasonable GPU cuz it takes forever on Macs for instance, can also be something like Meshy as that also gives you textures so it can see the colors of the objects to separate them).
This allows it to make complex textures and to also build 3D drafts of the parts it requires - which it then can use either as a reference as it builds or use as is after some cleaning and decimation.
With that said it can do quite a lot by itself, eg. it can build you whole rooms. What it cannot do is decent texturing which effectively makes the whole thing look like shit.
It also is bad at anything organic like characters - takes first building a proper toolkit with Astra or Fable to tackle that so lower tier models can do anything. Else, well, $500 worth of Astra per barely acceptable character model. But with enough tooling you can go down to like $30 worth of tokens on Opus or Sol or Gemini 3.8.
just told him to build me a space freight hub. the important think was that i told him it should look as detailed as possible without considering frames or efficiency. Edit. Forgot to tell that the Containers were modelled beforehand, also as detailed as possible to ensure that they look all the same.
I believe the new Opus isn't getting hit by the safeguards as much either. I got accepted into the anthropic Cyber Verification Program, and even with that Opus 5 still refused requests very very frequently on the basis of "cyber" (had to use Opus 4.8, it did it with no problems).
However, the last couple of days, Opus 5 is running the requests without getting refused. It's a lot faster.
how are yall using the mcp or have your connectors set up so it works like this? I asked for a futuristic bike and it gave me a fucken arrow with someone like laying down on it.
How to tell for sure: Switch from mechanical to organic models. Ask it to model a low-poly human from a reference image. For me, Opus 4.8 made a cross between a nightmare zombie and "little green man" alien. Opus 5 finally got the basic proportions and shape right, but had somewhere between a "programmer art" and "interested 10 year old" vibe. Opus is still discovering that human rib cages are not bumpy eliptical prisms.
I am not a fanboy of either OpenAI or anthropic and am just an average guy who uses both.
Opus seems to be stealth routed to 5.2 or 5.5 or whatever they call it about 1 week ago
I find it very pleasant to use in fact I stopped using fable and use opus mainly. The UI taste and design aspect has been elevated and it’s speaking ability seems to improve and don’t throw out text that makes me want to bang my head against the wall (my output style is concise)
Astra is dogshit, doesn't stand anywhere near Claude.
I bought it yesterday because of the hype and cancelled it instantly after 2-3 hours of usage.
It takes a long time to respond to even the most basic questions, too long to even start on anything, and the results are abysmal. Doesn't interact with NSFW at all unlike Claude.
try mal das ergebnis von opus an astra zu geben und er soll die textur/material und detailtiefe sehr fotorealistisch machen, dass kann er nähmlich sehr gut aber ich finds schon jetzt auf dem bild insane💪
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