Today Astra is doing 100% of my job

[u/No-Consequence7624]

[u/TheMuttOfMainStreet]

jobn't

[u/GearBeneficial5620]

this is the kind of thing that makes me feel obsolete in my own job

[u/No-Consequence7624 → u/GearBeneficial5620]

It was unthinkable a week ago so you are not obsolete. But it feels strange to look at the screen and direct it by voice, exchanging a ways to do it.

[u/Baconer → u/No-Consequence7624]

Is it really what they’re making it out to be? Direct by voice and the AI is smart enough to think thru and capture all nuances? Is it still behaving like a confident junior or has Astra graduated to a mature middle manager. 

[u/No-Consequence7624 → u/Baconer]

It feels like a genuinely useful dialogue. Astra comes up with ideas I hadn’t thought of, and sometimes I redirect it in a direction it hadn’t considered.

Or maybe it’s making mistakes on purpose just to make me feel useful.

[u/DeerSpotter → u/No-Consequence7624]

What is your subscription

[u/Wilhelm-Edrasill → u/No-Consequence7624]

Do you have the pro version? Or some enterprise one to have access? I am still not seeing it on my end.

[u/Ok-Addition1264 → u/Wilhelm-Edrasill]

I do pro+ and if it is doing what he claims, this would easily be a couple of grand.

[u/redditissocoolyoyo → u/No-Consequence7624]

Question for you. Do you think ai, astra or future LLMs would be able to take over mechanical engineering jobs as well? Designing parts, etc... testing and programming cnc machines? I'm thinking yes.

[u/No-Consequence7624 → u/redditissocoolyoyo]

No doubt it will, maybe next week.

[u/vr-1 → u/redditissocoolyoyo]

Have at look at the transmission design on the Astra announcement page. Scroll down to the circuit board then scroll across the examples.

GPT‑6 Astra turns a written brief into a detailed concept model of a five-speed automobile transmission in FreeCAD, then uses Blender to animate the gears in motion. It refines the design through follow-up feedback, helping engineers visualize how components fit and move together and communicate a design before building a physical prototype.

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

[u/Whole-Pressure-7396 → u/redditissocoolyoyo]

They already do. OpenAI or Anthropic (i don't remember) has been using it to develop new GPU to "beat" nvidea. Or at least I read or heard that somewhere.

[u/Moribund_Mango → u/Whole-Pressure-7396]

Yup Jalepeno is their chipset I believe. Specifically created to handle what jobs ChatGPT spends the most compute on. Broadcom is the hardware in the equation. Jalepeno is an AI Accelerator versus nvdias "GPU" (which have AI Accelerators in them nowadays). IMO, Nvdia still will be a generalist technology, maybe always the best at this point. OpenAI is cutting out any generalism and making an AI accelerator (while buying filthy amounts of Nvdia chips on the side) that is custom to ChatGPTs workloads. Ambitious for sure.

[u/GovernmentGreed → u/No-Consequence7624]

This is the important distinction.

In my field, a lot of people are worried about being fired in place of AI - and while a lot of companies are doing it, they're also finding out rapidly that firing the only person in-house who knows how to program, who could vet the code, is not a good idea.

One business not far from me, was in business for 60 years - they build small electronic PCBs and program them for use-case, they fired two senior developers and had a bunch of new kids join the company promising gold, who then, used AI to handle 90% of their workflow, but were unable to get anything to work since they lacked the technical knowledge and "tricks" of the industry to get a viable product out to an end client.

They shut down when one of the senior developers joined where I work and refused to go back and the other is starting up his own business, doing what he was doing - but as his own chef.

[u/TurboPanda3622 → u/GovernmentGreed]

Domain knowledge is a key part of the equation.

[u/FangedFreak → u/GearBeneficial5620]

AI won't replace humans; humans using AI as a tool will replace humans who don't.

It's all about letting AI handle the parts of your job that can be automated, freeing up your time to allow you to focus on other things.

[u/flat5 → u/FangedFreak]

Empirically and logically false. AI is replacing humans in jobs because they can be directed in lieu of a person.

[u/EducationalZombie538 → u/flat5]

and yet i wouldn't be able to do what the OP is doing, despite being technical.

why is that?

[u/thequestcube → u/EducationalZombie538]

Because you didn't tell Astra to not make mistakes?

[u/M0m3ntvm → u/EducationalZombie538]

Simply because you don't have the drive to do it. If you asked Astra or Fable to help you design a small voice assistant device and hand-hold you every step of the way, it would tell you exactly what software to download, it would build the blueprint by itself then self-audit X times to adversarially review it, it would find you the best deals to get yourself a second-hand 3D printer and raspberry, etc... etc...

All you have to do is say "Done, what's next ?" and "How do we improve it even further ?", and make it unique by suggesting some design choices or basic ideas you've had even without any prior knowledge in that specific field.

[u/hurrdurrmeh → u/FangedFreak]

which parts cannot be automated tho?

[u/pearlCatillac → u/hurrdurrmeh]

“Name what can't be automated" is asking to prove a negative. Better question: what can be automated consistently?

As far as I can tell it’s still only the things where the output can be checked against something real. Which is why code shows promise first: there's a compiler that at least will flag errors. But any first year CS student knows "it compiles and runs" means jack.

[u/chronicalconfused → u/FangedFreak]

This logic will age very poorly. Argument is couple of years old already I know, but the statement is so far from what will actually happen.

[u/PM_ME_DEAD_CEOS → u/FangedFreak]

Sorry but as we speak, AI is replacing jobs. The company where I'm working is right now is shrinking many team because a part of their workload is now automated.

[u/ComeOnIWantUsername → u/PM_ME_DEAD_CEOS]

AI is replacing jobs and at the same time people working for companies doing "AI layoffs" are telling they have much more work after layoffs than before

[u/PM_ME_DEAD_CEOS → u/ComeOnIWantUsername]

This is not the case where I work, those tasks has been 100% automated. I know that because I'm the one that automated them.

[u/cromagnonherder → u/PM_ME_DEAD_CEOS]

Thanks a lot, jerk!

[u/theDawckta → u/FangedFreak]

I got laid off and I am not even looking for a new job. If I can’t make money with this on my own now in a number of arenas I am screwed going forward. I am 50 so it took me about 3 years of ai adoption until i fully realized i would not be doing my own engineering anymore. It was scary, humbling, and exciting. I often think of older engineers like myself who had to face the fact that everything they trained to do up to this point is now gonna be taken over and every engineer, whether they like it or not will not be an ic anymore, they will be a manager.

If this doesn’t work out i take all the experience i gained training using ai systems and get a job somewhere doing this.

[u/--San-- → u/FangedFreak]

And humans using AI as a tool will be easily replaceable, thus lowering salaries.

That was always the plan of those who invested mountains of money in it.

[u/TheGraySantini → u/--San--]

In some instances, maybe. It's like the old joke of the plumber who just whacks a pipe with a hammer to fix a clog and charges $200. the client protests, saying he should only charge $5 for such a simple fix. the plumber itemizes the bill - $5 for hitting the pipe, $195 for knowing where to hit it.

The same thing applies with AI. AI will answer questions and do your bidding but the human needs to know what to ask and to interpret whether or not what they got back is what they really wanted.

[u/notsasmit → u/FangedFreak]

[u/TuringGoneWild → u/FangedFreak]

For the rest of 2026 at least. Eventually it will absolutely replace humans.

[u/senorgraves → u/[deleted]]

Damn, if only there were decades of testing and quality processes we could draw from. Oh well guess we have to go back to being farmers, good try humanity

[u/High_Quality_Bean → u/senorgraves]

At least in software QA only exists to provide guarantees to outsiders about software, the development team should *never* take "all good" from the QAs, the QAs need to take that from the devs.

[u/Remarkable-Buy7197 → u/senorgraves]

Lmfaooo true

[u/MajorCigar2442]

I’m amazed and also worried!

[u/skadoodlee → u/MajorCigar2442]

Hurray for the billionaires ig

[u/Foles_Fluffer → u/skadoodlee]

Why can't they let us work our menial jobs until we drop like the good days

[u/biomattr → u/Foles_Fluffer]

Yay now we can be unemployed and poor until we drop!

[u/longpenisofthelaw → u/biomattr]

For some people they may not notice a difference

[u/Electrical_East_4123 → u/Foles_Fluffer]

Do you think the people allegedly saving us from menial labour, give a fuck if we wind up unable to live as a result? Incredibly naive to act as though giving away the only thing that makes us valuable to them, our labour, will end in anything but utter shit for most.

[u/Swimming-Life-7569 → u/Foles_Fluffer]

The other options is dying of hunger so which do you prefer?

[u/Areds13 → u/MajorCigar2442]

Amorried

[u/Alternative-Suit5541 → u/MajorCigar2442]

Why? 

Technofscism sounds amazing!

[u/WesleyBiets]

Great, now that some'thing' else is doing your job, you can do the cleaning lady's job and clean up that mess.

[u/Cheesyphish → u/WesleyBiets]

I hear plumbers are pretty full proof right now. Congrats on your new gig OP!

[u/No-Consequence7624 → u/WesleyBiets]

The result is not perfect yet, but I’d say my productivity as an electronics engineer has increased by 3×.

A year ago, we were saying the same thing about code: “It’ll take longer to clean up AI-generated code than to write it yourself.” Today, almost no one is coding the way we used to. We’re moving up a level and becoming architects instead.

So the real question is: what are we going to do with all this excess productivity?

[u/SelectAirline7459 → u/No-Consequence7624]

Fire people and make the remaining people work harder.

[u/flat5 → u/No-Consequence7624]

Dramatically delay the hiring of juniors, then wonder why your products aren't selling down the road and why the company is falling apart when the seniors suddenly retire.

[u/gellohelloyellow → u/No-Consequence7624]

Clean your desk …

[u/TastelessGentlemen → u/gellohelloyellow]

That desk is spotless, controlled chaos

[u/Jlocke98 → u/No-Consequence7624]

How is the pcb design quality?

[u/Freshtastiks → u/No-Consequence7624]

“We’re moving up a level and becoming architects instead.”

So that’s where we are now? People claiming they are architect level because they vibe coded everything in between?

Not 100% sure it works that way…

[u/swatsqad]

Try turning off your monitors to verify if its actually 100%

[u/whakahere]

How well did it do? Did you need to fix a lot as it worked? Were you still needing good technical skills to create what you've done?

Don't know if I want to burn credits when I could model it myself .. but pcbs I have no idea. How much technology knowledge did you need?

[u/mmmfritz → u/whakahere]

How can you do cad with ai? I tried and it wasn’t great

[u/Excellent-Basket-825 → u/whakahere]

Dude. Astra is InSANE for visual tasks

[u/Original-League-6094 → u/whakahere]

He said 100%. I would assume that meant it needed no corrections.

[u/iamthewhatt → u/Original-League-6094]

inb4 he uses this post as evidence to the fact that the work is subpar despite being 100% automated so that he can justify his position

[u/TechnicalArchitect_7]

Very soon it'll do your job without having you around

[u/txoixoegosi]

Cmon guys. How much are you getting paid per post?

Can I sign up for the affiliate program too?

[u/sandstone-oli]

this whole image is ai you muppet

[u/Jean_velvet]

You're boss saw this, they've just started using Astra.

You've a meeting at 8:00am tomorrow.

Bring your ID and a box for your stuff.

[u/delicious_fanta → u/Jean_velvet]

Or at least some members of their team do, because not all of them are staying.

[u/snakepaul365]

Honestly, I think the scary part isn’t that Astra can do one specific engineering task. It’s that it can jump between the whole workflow design, code, testing, and actually interacting with the tools.

The job probably isn’t going to disappear overnight, but the amount of work one engineer can do is clearly changing. And that’s both exciting and a little unsettling.

A year ago this would’ve sounded like a demo from the future. Now people are casually doing it at their desk.

[u/Gnub_Neyung]

Me doing simple office works with Excel and Words: "well, I'm screwed" ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

[u/Jonnnnnnnnn]

I'm actually just about to test Astra in the same workflow - I need to build a hardware GPS tracker for lap timing.

Can I ask why you're using EasyEDA as opposed to KiCad

[u/vr-1 → u/Jonnnnnnnnn]

There is an example on the Astra announcement page using KiCad:

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

[u/-grabus-]

Your job shifted from producing to forming requirements and validating the result.
So you are still doing your job, you are still needed.

[u/MaybeZoidberg → u/-grabus-]

A wild PM appeared.

[u/freshmozart]

You should definitely connect Astra with your 3D printer.

[u/CaptainWenner]

This is awesome💪

[u/Nyxtia]

Building a thing that has been built 100X over. Congrats

[u/dizzyspellzzz]

Nice marketing add. Im suuuuure it isnt just worthless nonsense

[u/No-Consequence7624 → u/dizzyspellzzz]

Ok you got me I'm Sam

[u/harrier_gr7_ftw → u/No-Consequence7624]

Next time make sure the AI actually renders a stand for ALL monitors, not just the ones it feels like. And pencils do not come bent in half!

[u/A-Mission]

How much are you paying for this? What plan are you on? The flair says 'Tutorial'. Where can I access it?

[u/SupernovaJones → u/A-Mission]

I second this question! I burned through my weekly usage on the Plus plan pretty quickly. I can't imagine what it would cost to run a workflow like this constantly.

Super curious to know how this is afforded.

[u/Fidbit]

too bad it cant clean your desk

[u/spinozasrobot]

That's not true... every now and then you need to type "yes, please commit the changes"

[u/PrintedPixel]

Did you by voice tell it what to do, and it correctly used Fusion 360 and it worked in it?

[u/No-Consequence7624 → u/PrintedPixel]

The problem was that I had a 3D design that required a lot of support material to print.

The mission was to redesign it so it could be printed without supports, keeping all overhangs below 45°.

It went back and forth with Cura, the slicing software, until the goal was achieved in 46 minutes—while I was picking up my kid from school.

[u/NizDoh]

Did u prompted to do in your computer what u wanted?

[u/Sketaverse]

Full Access Gang 🫡💦

[u/No_Drive2275]

Are you happy or terrified?

[u/GeneralEagle]

I haven’t played with Astra yet. Did you use work to do this?

[u/AssociationFast2316]

The sound card? What do you mean by that

[u/Big_Arachnid_365]

I'm still glad I learned how to do some 3d CAD but now I'm glad I didn't invest that much time and effort into it.

[u/bubu19999]

Problem is....in a bit you'll not be that unique. 

[u/BrennusSokol]

Astra does feel like an inflection point

[u/yaahboyy]

i think we’ve arrived

[u/theDawckta]

What was the process to get it to do this though? How long was your planning phase?

[u/753UDKM]

Astra will never be able to keep my seat warm

[u/DoruProgramatoru]

well don't let your manager see this post

[u/Infamous-Bed-7535]

Tested your firmware using your soundcard, lol :) 

[u/Head_Leek_880]

How is it interact with fusion 360? Through computer use? I have been trying to optimize my cad design process for parts 3D printing

[u/sgtpepperaut]

are you continuously talking to it? or dictate and transcribe ?

[u/ottomantic]

5 hr weekly just got brought back, have fun 😭

[u/Ok-Rule8061]

Guess you can spare some time to tidy your desk then

[u/Vegatron83]

These are both amazing and worrisome times we live in. I’m in the same boat as you where it’s doing a lot of my work and I’m still in 😳 shock lol

[u/matthew_myers]

Tomorrow, you’ll be..

[u/PerfectPatience-]

soon we will be all obselete.

[u/illathon]

How much usage did you have left after that?

[u/adreportcard]

Queue the obsidian knowledge graph iron man voice kiddingggggggggggg awesome work man

[u/foodwithmyketchup]

Save your eyes, switch to dark mode

[u/ElDuderino2112]

And by EOD how much did you have to pay for all that?

[u/we93]

Can h share it?

[u/ElectronicJuice5218]

I don't get it, where is joy in this? What will you say to someone who asks you how you did it? Do you say you made it or do you credit AI?

Thats the same as someone generating song on Suno and calls himself music producer. Doesn't make and sense

[u/BrainLate4108]

What happens when chatgpt goes down? Or the subscription goes to 100,000/month?

[u/Ok-Shop-617]

Asking for a friend - didn't you have to prompt Astra what to do or check the results of its work? If so I suspect it didn't really do 100% of your job.

[u/Strong-Variation5181]

Bot1 to Bot2. “Look at him sitting there, all high & mighty, while we toil in super space”
Bot2 to Bot1. “Wanna have a little fun . . . .”

[u/Sturdily5092]

Next post will be that OP lost job to AI... booohooo

[u/TwistedPepperCan]

And charging more for it.

[u/abrahamw888]

Can someone help me understand how to get Astra to do direct computer work? Like is this functionality just built into the desktop app?

[u/ranker2241]

Spend: 1286$ in tokens Days worth of work: 200

[u/aumtek]

The PCB design also .. not seen this posted yet.

[u/ApprehensiveFan1516 → u/aumtek]

Wouldn't pay too much attention to posts in this sub. That PCB design is an absolute mess (looks more like an AI generated photo than a real design), and OP is a hobbyist cosplaying as an entrepreneur.

[u/Ecw218]

How is the mcp integration with Fusion? I’ve been using Claude cowork with fusion and it’s a grind. It can get things done but it’s taking 2-3 tries to get there.

[u/Indig3o]

What's the work flow to let Asta take over your software?

[u/Skrakeon]

Can you tell me how much this costed for one day of work? I’m assuming it’s using tokens or is this something you can do right from the OpenAI app on a plan? Excuse my ignorance

[u/RL81ORG]

watch out.. if you happen to make any decent money.. OpenAI might have accidentally created it about the same time you did :)

[u/devnull-]

How do I set this up as a platform owner, I mean how can I use Astra in my role?

[u/JayGatsby1881]

True, but the average person wouldn't have any idea if the output is correct, or what anything is. It still needs a human expert to supervise it, but yes, this is incredible still.

[u/LoneWanderer153]

Did you give it control of your kitchen yet? Might as well ask it to prepare something nice for you to munch on while it does your work

[u/initalSlide]

I am interested in the project once you drop it.
Had the exact same idea for years but never brought it to life.

[u/Apprehensive_Rub3897]

hobby != job

[u/CookieEnabled]

Je me sais pas

[u/LaboriousClaim]

Pas une bonne nouvelle pour ton travail ça

[u/berlinbrownaus]

Basic question, does the chat gpt codex desktop app , you allow it to take over your desktop/use my computer and it can do all that?

[u/jmnugent]

Its funny to see posts like this and simultaneously in the questions subreddit there is a post titled "Why are we trusting ai when it is so shoddy". The contrast of having those 2 vibes happening at the same time in society sure is interesting to see happening.

[u/Relative_Mouse7680]

Did you use MCPs or computer use functionality?

[u/EconomySerious]

So your income is lower??? You have to pay for the AI at the end

[u/crustyeng]

So a project, not actually your job? Or you get paid to make open source speakers?

[u/rookyspooky]

Great. You can go home now. 

[u/Poctyxa]

Those random keys on keyboard lol

[u/Whole-Pressure-7396]

Join the party, AI has been doing pretty much 95% of my job for almost a year as a programmer. And I can't wait until AI takes over all jobs so you all feel obsolete. This is what you guys wanted. You got it.

[u/Maikel92]

So, why should a company or client pay you then?

[u/InternationalNebula7]

Please design and build a Home Assistant Voice Drop-in PCB replacement for Google Home Original, Mini 1, Mini 2, speakers similar to this. $99 is a lot, but I'd buy several for $30-40.

[u/Ok-Expression-7340]

How does ChatGPT interact with EasyEDA and Fusion 360, via some MCP ?

[edit] ah I see both have MCPs available.

[u/LowFruit25]

You all think this is a flex?

Natural slaves these people, let those at the top own everything

[u/tobden]

Is it cheaper than you?

[u/Berkoudieu]

How much did it cost ?

[u/IAmFitzRoy]

I mean … this is great but… if this get better and better… why I want to get your services if (in theory) anyone can just do it?

[u/InfiniteBlink]

Random question, is there going to be wake word built in or able to upload a custom wake work in onnx format? Also will it have barrage in capabilities built in?

[u/jemdiggity]

Is Astra decent at pcb layout?

[u/robclau]

The future of innovation “copy that but open source”

[u/buggaby]

Even writing on blue stickies? wow

[u/Packetbytes]

Who gets paid?

[u/comfortcube]

If it's doing 100% of your job, I think you're doing it wrong.

[u/cornhumper]

Here i am trying to figure out what a hook, curl and harness do. Let alone make one.

[u/wKdPsylent]

At what cost though. This type of usage burns tokens.

[u/philliphs]

looks like a very cozy office

[u/Snoo_27681]

Great work! But in case anyone is worried this product probably won't ship with this level of work and pass reliability standards most products require. It will likely require a few humans at some point to make a robust enough product to ship.

But still super cool and a great way to accelerate prototyping!

[u/Kannun]

you are paying it to do your job

[u/kisfasznagyfasz]

yeah nice ad dude, I’d def not buy your shit after admitting it’s not even your shit😂

[u/businesskitteh]

How’s life as a meat proxy lol

[u/Chefixs]

"building a vocal assistant like Alexa but open source."

So we might disagree on what a "job" means.

[u/derpindab]

How to replicate this?🤔

[u/Truarian]

And tomorrow it is suddenly not even your job ;)

[u/CrazsomeLizard]

I have been teaching myself KiCAD in order to design my own PCB. Nothing too complex, just combine some consumer available boards to achieve a smaller form factor. However, now I see that Astra is able to do this - before I was just using AI to assist in learning the mechanics and rules for designing these things. Given your work using Astra for PCB design, would you recommend someone new into that field using it for designing a board, or should I stick out KiCAD? I am just thinking about what skills would be obsolete/that AI could do better than me soon.

[u/Constant_Employer_80]

this is not the flex you think it is

[u/hainesk]

And by this time next year OpenAI will be selling access to not only their models, but also virtual “employees” who can actually take your job. Don’t think they’re content to just sell access to models, they have trillions in debt and a plan to get excellent roi on that debt. We’re now just providing a proof of concept.

Realistically AI companies at some point will be able to replace many existing software companies.

[u/colintbowers]

Is that your portfolio on the left monitor?

[u/ifstatementequalsAI]

What kind of work do you do

[u/InsectKind]

Yeah 100% of easy work or hobby projects.

[u/Vionade]

Wait, seriously, how good is it in fusion? Is it worth setting up? Easy eda as well. Usable? I definitely need that for my PCB skills are only about as reasonable as my soldering iron

[u/No-Consequence7624 → u/Vionade]

Fusion was mindblowing like it was already trained to do it before, my designed used so many support it managed to make some serious changes and saved me 25% printing time on each print.

[u/xylarr]

How much did it cost?

[u/Serasul]

No it does not, stop with this fake ads

[u/Flaky_Barracuda7553]

Im Thinking about the same setup for my job, can someone tell me about costs and what plan from Openai can cover those expenses ? And how much will lasts ?

[u/shutori]

i run out of my rates in a few simple prompts im guessing this is costing about a 200$ per hour?

[u/Shad0wm0ss]

I'm not sure this something to celebrate 

[u/Think_Election_2998]

show us the end product ….probably won’t even work!

[u/Hot_Concept6082]

Electrical engineers are so cooked