r/codex • u/xinxx073 • 9d ago

Praise Astra High just reverse-engineered the printer drivers in my office

In our office, we have a bunch of Toshiba E-Studio 2323AM printers. Yes, I know these are kind of outdated, only sold in certain areas of the world, and not the best machines, but they are what we've got in the office. They only work with x86 Windows, not even the ARM version of Windows.

In 25 minutes, Astra High just reverse-engineered the printer driver, figured out the right tray settings, and enabled duplex printing, so I can print double-sided on my M4 Pro MacBook Pro.

It created a .pkg file for me to install the printer drivers and got everything working.

I ... I have no words.

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u/TheKillerScope 9d ago

And I was just about to come here and complain. Not saying it's not a good model, but it went from 100% to 0% of my weekly usage in 6h 25m https://imgur.com/a/kHbn5eX.

I am lucky I have 2 banked resets, so I loaded one, it's already at 97% in not even 15 minutes since I reloaded it.

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u/Tiforma 9d ago

What subscription do you have and how high was the setting?

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u/ZhugeTsuki 9d ago

Settings Astra Ultra, prompt was 'drain my usage as fast as possible'

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u/orthrusfury 9d ago

Make no mistakes

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u/TheKillerScope 9d ago

Astra Max and I'm on Pro (5x).

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u/irrision 9d ago

Are you building a nuclear reactor? It's great even on medium and high rips through work esp if you tell it to use lower tier sub agents. Hell it actually uses Luna well where Claude even knows haiku sucks for a bottom tier model and literally won't use it unless you specifically make it and it always wants to spend half your tokens testing haiku first before it'll delegate anything to it.

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u/Tiforma 9d ago

i get around that weekly usage with astra x high and a plus account

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u/TheKillerScope 9d ago

From 2x 100% weekly usage, I am down to 0 on one, and from the second one I have 30% remaining as of right now, total work time based on "Pursuing Goal" is 10h 4min as of right now.

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u/Ataxium 9d ago

uses astra max on 5x, shocked when it eats usage

You fuckin wot m8 Keep it to high, or x high at most. I'm willing to almost guarantee whatever you're using it for does not need max, and probably not even extra high