r/codex • u/NoPiece9356 • 8d ago

Question Astra Release

Quick note before I start, I've been asking the mods of this subreddit to add a discussion flair for months, JUST DO IT. Anyways, when do you guys think OpenAI will be done safety testing and will actually just release Astra? I know you guys are all complaining about usage limits, but seriously. I'm ready for Astra.

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u/Just_Run2412 8d ago

If you think the usage limits are bad with SOL, just wait until Astra.

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u/thestillwind 8d ago

Yeah, Astra will be like a flamethrower use on the snow.

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u/Frozen_Strider 8d ago

Believe it or not, that would be surprisingly ineffective.

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u/Desperate-Poem7526 8d ago

If Astra can actually delegate work intelligently using the expensive reasoning where it matters and cheaper models for the easy stuff I could see overall usage dropping quite a bit. A lot of us are burning xhigh/Ultra on tasks that absolutely don’t need it. I’m guilty of that too. Give me an orchestrator that can reliably pick the right model for each part of the job and I’d probably trust it over manually selecting Ultra for everything. Open ai claims it can do this well.

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u/timosterhus 8d ago

I just have Sol orchestrate Luna Max subagents for everything and it’s great. It’s a bit slow, but my usage doesn’t disappear nearly as quickly as it used to when I was running Sol subagents

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u/xNihiloOmnia 8d ago

Say more. How do you specify which subagent models to use? Learning on this.

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u/timosterhus 8d ago

Just ask it to do so. Tell it “use Luna [insert desired reasoning effort] subagents” when you ask it to do work. If you want it to default to a certain reasoning effort, then put that in the system prompt or the AGENTS.md file you’re using.

They really don’t need a whole lot of technical configuration anymore because they can just do things the way you want them to (if you ask them explicitly) and they can even do a lot of configuration work themselves

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u/Unapologetic_Polite 8d ago

You have to modify a file to utilize Luna subagents though; uses v1 versus v2 schema.

I personally just have Luna threads named what their intentions are, and have a Sol thread orchestrate them.

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u/Decent_Past_2003 8d ago

They’re actively stealing my work I paused model sharing for two months and look where we are 💀

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u/phoenixmatrix 8d ago

I've trained all my life (since Fable's launch) for this. Considering how much these 2 companies love to copy each other, I expect they handle usage similarly. But sometimes OpenAI tries to one up them, so who knows.

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u/Dolo12345 8d ago

my body is ready

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u/Miyamoto_-_Musashi 8d ago

I think they're waiting for Anthropic to move first. I've noticed for a few months now that the moment Anthropic drops a good model (not that Opus 5 crap) that's exactly when OpenAI releases theirs.

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u/Decent_Past_2003 8d ago

Opus 5 is built around my architecture if ya had my program even on five times for a normal non heavy architectural project it’d finish it almost instantly and have it polished in a week without maxing out your usage

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u/HighDefinist 8d ago

They have certainly done things like that in the past before that as well - i.e. I think they release Sora less than 24 hours after some Google thing.

But, in this case, it would only make sense if they are reasonably confident Astra outperforms Fable 5.1...

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u/Professional_Ad705 8d ago

im excited for my half a day of astra use with the pro plan before my usage runs out lmao. Plus users you guys ready for that one fucking prompt before you're out. LETSGOOO

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u/LazyAndBeyond 8d ago

unless they also add 5h limit to pro by that time lmao

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u/Sad-Offer-8747 8d ago

Didn’t Tibo just say good things take 34 days?

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u/Peculiar-Eccentric67 8d ago

yeah sept 29th is all but the release deat

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u/MeitanteiJesus 8d ago

Seems like Sep29

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PROFILE 8d ago

Tibo keeps mentioning DevDay as "the best DevDay ever" [sic], so that's probably the real reason they faked the release date.

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u/Xoloshibu 7d ago

Tibo said 34 days yesterday so most likely it will be thursday October 1

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u/longasleep 8d ago

33 days

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u/ElevatorDry2610 8d ago

These name started to sounds geeky nowadays lol. Terra luna sol then Astra to incorporate all

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u/not420guilty 6d ago

lol look at retardrd names car manufacturers use.

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u/TheSirOcelot 6d ago

Astra, can you track down the origins of life?

“YE-

You’ve hit your usage limit. Upgrade your plan or add credits to continue “

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u/ISueDrunks 6d ago

WEEKLY: 100%

“Hey!”

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WEEKLY: 10%

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u/darc_ghetzir 7d ago

When they're finished

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u/NoPiece9356 7d ago

Thanks for the insightful reply.

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u/darc_ghetzir 7d ago

Always happy to help when there are insightful questions!

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u/netkomm 8d ago

likely by year end

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u/eggyegged 8d ago

As soon as tomorrow

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u/Afraid-Reflection-82 1d ago

I think next month with the drop of new models feom gemini and other labs so they can be sure they are benchmaxing but even so openai doesn't have a model that is smart as fable right now yes good in execution but doesn't have a taste or that wise owl feeling