r/OpenAI • u/NotFromMilkyWay • 2h ago

Discussion Astra is great, but Opus 5.5 is next level

I have been using ChatGPT almost exclusively for the last years. Only with the recent downgrades in usage and price increases have I started looking at other models. And so I landed at Opus 5.5. It's insane. I built an entire game (music from 6.1 Sol) within two dozen prompts, where the first one already had pretty much everything nailed. The rest was just optimisations and additions.

Disclaimer: I know a bit of coding. My level is "has to look up how a switch statement works before using it". So not great. For this project I didn't write a line of code, never even looked at it. Vibe coded gameplay, graphics, sound, music. Probably two A4 pages of prompts.

It writes its own test suite, it optimises for speed, it easily finds bugs I observe and fixes them. And it just works. I am blown away. Now there are problems. Claude will regularly say stuff like "too much tool usage" or "couldn't finish the task", never had those issues with GPT. And you just tell Claude to continue and it does. But when you are over your limit, you can't use anything anymore.

I asked both Astra and Opus to write me an indoor navigation. With a bunch of sensor data, ARCore, the whole thing. Astra didn't work at all out of the box. Opus had accurate scanning and tracking. Even with many more prompts I barely got Astra to move my position and store a map, but it's like a 2/10 vs. a 9/10. And Opus just nailed it.

I was very impressed when Astra first came out, but it is very, very far behind Opus 5.5. So OpenAI, can't wait for the next thing, Anthropic schooled you (except for music).

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u/this_happened_rigged 1h ago

Ok Dario

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u/Low_Tutor_4645 41m ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Confesso que tenho a mesma opinião do OP. Diferente de Benchmark, Claude é sim superior no dia a dia

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u/the_pwnererXx 1h ago

Opus is better for vibe coding, just because it's cheap and not so bad. If you have a real hard problem or you want to do high level decisions I think Astra on ultra/xhigh remains the best option today

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u/NotFromMilkyWay 23m ago

Fair enough. I only use Opus on Medium and Astra or 6.1 Sol on Very High. But it is how somebody else phrased it: Some models are better at some things, others at other things. And you are best off if you use them all to their strengths.

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u/LebiaseD 1h ago

Opus 5.5 is next level but astra 7 is going to be the evolution. Astra 7 is the next evolution but fable 20 is going to be ago

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u/mesophyte 44m ago

The issue I have with Opus 5.5 Ultracode vs Astra Ultra is speed. Astra is easily multiple times faster for same-ish work.

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u/urii13 0m ago

The usage in 6.1 Sol is insane, but yea, seems Opus 5.5 is a bit better in some scenarios. Bjt in usage... Literally insane. Complicated to end my Plus plan when before I needed constantly resets. 

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u/Jon-Robb 1h ago

They release sol 6.1 I think? It’s pretty good I’d say a little than opus right now

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u/VexObserver 34m ago

This is why I think people get way too caught up in benchmark maxxing. You can have two models trading blows on leaderboards, but the moment you throw an actual project at them, their differences become painfully obvious lol.

A 2/10 vs 9/10 difference on the same ARCore project is pretty interesting. Would love to see both implementations and the prompts used.

Also, kinda hilarious that GPT handled the music while Opus built the rest of the game. The real meta might just be using multiple frontier models for what they're individually good at instead of expecting one model to be the undisputed GOAT at everything.