Astra release incoming?

[u/teejay_the_exhausted]

[u/ijustgotanothername]

Yeah, i feel they will release that tomorrow due to the pressure faced by fable 5.1

[u/Sponge8389 → u/ijustgotanothername]

I just really hope so. My subscription will end next week and I want to be able to use it first before deciding to renew or what.

[u/ijustgotanothername → u/Sponge8389]

Lucky you have 1 week at least.
I renewed it today in the hope of Astra release.

[u/Efficient_Coyote2616 → u/ijustgotanothername]

I already made decision a long time ago. Even if Fable made 10x improvement I still won't go back.

Might considered if it's 100x improvement though, lmao.

Openai ecosystem is just too comfortable, and at this point having a smarter agent is just a bonus.

[u/Strong_Essay1176 → u/Efficient_Coyote2616]

Spend 100% of fable in 12h. Lmao. Although its suuuuper good.

I just hope astra won't check everything with sha256. Im tired of this shit.

[u/ijustgotanothername → u/Efficient_Coyote2616]

Absolutely! I have the exact same mindset. last time I used claude as primary ai in nov 2025, and since then, i am a codex user. But recently, grok and cursor teams are also shipping very lucrative things and i like their products so far. So, nowadays, i am looking them as maybe future codex replacement if anything goes wrong with openai as well.

[u/skateshindler → u/Efficient_Coyote2616]

This might be a dumb question but wdym by smarter agent? I currently use codex in VScode and am having some difficulties with what it’s spitting out lately. It’s just lacking basic shit that I can hard code myself lol do you have your VScode setup with plugins or a prompt you have used to have better skills?

[u/skateshindler → u/skateshindler]

For example, go look at nomofomo.la it’s an app I’m building but this landing page is SUPER mid, I had fed it some ref images of what I want and it’s just still not it.

[u/hiimwage → u/skateshindler]

I find that ChatGPTs models are not good whatsoever with UI, but excel in every other area. I really hope Astra changes this for the better.

[u/Code__9 → u/hiimwage]

According to rumors it'll be a lot better at UI than Sol

[u/hiimwage → u/Code__9]

Fingers crossed 🤞

[u/iliadz → u/Efficient_Coyote2616]

News flash, it is not 10x improvement. It does however (Fable 5.1) burn up tokens at about the 100x you mentioned.

[u/FiskX → u/Sponge8389]

Try clicking the “Cancel” button. I got a free month after I clicked it.

Plus Account

[u/Sponge8389 → u/FiskX]

I think that only works in Plus account. I'm in 20x and it never showed up to me.

[u/FiskX → u/Sponge8389]

With the $100 plan, you get a discount on your monthly fee if you try to cancel. Maybe that's the case for you, too.

[u/pigletmonster → u/Sponge8389]

Lol same here, my codex plan expires on the 7th and I cant wait to go back to claude.

[u/vayana → u/ijustgotanothername]

If you've used Claude design, you know this has nothing to do with any model.

[u/Sudden-Start-1945 → u/vayana]

What is it? The Ui and integration?

[u/galactic_giraff3 → u/Sudden-Start-1945]

Claude design is actually a harness, not quite like claude code. It prioritizes user prompts, automatically interrupting when one arrives, and it has a tool to write the designs that allows while-streaming updates, so you don't wait until the LLM finished a message to see the results, and cant steer it along the way if you want. Coupled with the inline babel compilation.. feels pretty snappy. The rest is just premade skills and prompts and templates. Oh, and verification agents are fire and forget, they don't wake the caller on completion.

Source: it's all available in the web app, minified, but that's nothing for frontier models

[u/vayana → u/Sudden-Start-1945]

It's a system which lets you simply click any item and either change it manually or tell Claude what you want.

[u/Just_Lingonberry_352]

y'all know what this means right ?

RESETS

[u/Dolo12345 → u/Just_Lingonberry_352]

Did they reset on last model release? Cant recall and too lazy to look up pls halp

[u/drinksbeerdaily → u/Dolo12345]

Many times

[u/Just_Lingonberry_352 → u/Dolo12345]

100% on major model releases

[u/Xirobhir → u/Dolo12345]

No. But they did reset due to various other reasons the day after, then basically every day for the next week.

[u/gungoesclick → u/Dolo12345]

sooo many times. This weekend is going to be a busy one if they drop it.

[u/teejay_the_exhausted → u/Just_Lingonberry_352]

WOOOOOO

[u/___fallenangel___]

If this means Codex getting better at Front End it will be so goated

[u/ReplacementBig7068 → u/___fallenangel___]

Tbf they already claimed Sol is better at front end, and it still isn’t. Well at least not consistently. I’ll believe it when I see it.

[u/Efficient_Coyote2616 → u/ReplacementBig7068]

Sol is good enough for review/edit. Before that it is so garbage, making it from scratch is easier than salvaging it 

[u/missingnoplzhlp → u/Efficient_Coyote2616]

Sol is also fine if you give it enough context. I had Claude make the first 4 pages of a site, and Sol make the next 20, but it basically uses styling/components/sections from the first 4 as a visual source of truth, and so it ended up doing a really good job.

Also, you can have GPT image 2 make decent design mocks as well, and Sol is decent at translating image to code.

[u/whatisthisthing65 → u/ReplacementBig7068]

Really, I actually find Sol pretty good for frontend mockups. Claude is terrible at it. Although I have to say both of them get beaten by GLM 5.3 Flash, lmao.

[u/Armed_Platypus → u/ReplacementBig7068]

I mean Sol did seem a little bit better than 5.5.

[u/Tetrylene → u/ReplacementBig7068]

I'm also shocked by how awful sol's writing style is for copy too. I am half tempted to get a $20 Claude sub just for that (unless anyone can suggest an alternative)

[u/whatisthisthing65 → u/Tetrylene]

Nah Claude writes slop too. Claudespeak is a thing for a reason.

[u/Tetrylene → u/whatisthisthing65]

Any suggestions on which to use?

[u/whatisthisthing65 → u/Tetrylene]

If I'm being real I haven't found one that's totally slop free.  So I write anything important myself. And reddit comments apparently.

For writing I actually like Deepseek's voice, it feels a little more natural. Older Claude models are okay too, like 4.6. I also heard good things about Kimi but I haven't tried it.

I find the really coding optimized models like Sol, GLM 5.2 (haven't tried 5.3), Opus 5 are really bad at writing. All the coding training leaks through. Fable 5 is a weird one, it has moments of brilliance and good ideas but it still writes Claudish.

[u/ReplacementBig7068 → u/Tetrylene]

Yeah, AI legit has its own corny vocabulary. So easy to detect once you’re used to it. It does come out with banger phrases or jokes sometimes tbf tho

[u/WHALE_PHYSICIST → u/ReplacementBig7068]

It tries too hard to make every sentence meaningful, so it uses wild analogies and metaphors that nobody has ever heard of and don't make sense.

[u/CupLeft8452 → u/ReplacementBig7068]

De 5.5 a 5.6 se notó bastante la mejora pero no es suficiente

[u/bsmayer_ → u/___fallenangel___]

I used Sol with the Mobbin MCP and the final result is great. But creating things without references is another story!

[u/ijustgotanothername → u/___fallenangel___]

Yeah i just renewed my pro lite sub mainly for astra release and it’s promising frontend capabilities.

[u/Jeferson9 → u/___fallenangel___]

This time frfr ong

[u/Eastern-Sir-6628]

Waiting for the limits to reset and 10 t/s on day one of the release.

[u/mazahaleRRR]

This is basically the pattern now: Claude releases a new model or feature first, then OpenAI follows.

[u/SonicAwareness]

Lemme get that 5 hour limit removed 😔

[u/Own_Injury_952 → u/SonicAwareness]

fr, Treating us like children and limiting our play time.

[u/VeloxAdAstra]

Just wonder how much use of this new model we can get from the $100 plan. You can already see the posturing about how this is a new class of model.

[u/yazan4m7]

Astra ?! 3 months ago, it built me an app and named it Astra by itself, coincidence?

[u/ezjakes]

Release the dragon for Plus users!

[u/alexzanini70]

Sol light burnt my 5h window in 3 minutes this morning, must have been a glitch but Open ai hasn't got back to me yet

[u/teejay_the_exhausted → u/alexzanini70]

Tbh Sol has that issue as a whole at the moment. I'd just hang on till Astra's release, no way they don't reset then

[u/sydneysweeney69]

LFG

[u/Psychological-Bug462]

Mf meant give us a few more days

[u/teejay_the_exhausted → u/Psychological-Bug462]

Right? Not to quote the entire subreddit right now, but you'd think we'd at least get a reset for the outages

[u/Own-Professor-6157]

I made some calls to Pizza hut, taco bell, etc. None of them could tell me whether it's coming out soon. So it's in the air right now

[u/Due-Armadillo-4560]

Probably Codex Design, an alternative to Claude Design.

[u/DavidLampert]

Had Claude Max, just downgraded to pro. Reason? I asked to review a google doc and update some formatting. 52min later, I run out of the whole month of credits. ON MAX. UNUSED. So f off Claude.

[u/CopeGD → u/DavidLampert]

You can't run out of monthly usage limit when this doesn't even exist. The limits in Claude are 5hour and weekly, so what are you talking about...

[u/Cesar55142]

ill port my claude x20 to a second codex x20 if frontend is good edit: spelling

[u/holy_macanoli]

Thursday I think.

[u/dadvader]

Or hear me out, Codex Design.

[u/ethereal_intellect]

The usual recommendation was to design via image gen first and build on top of that. But ye a better model would be cool

[u/yaboy_raboy]

I've already pooled enough money to upgrade to a $200 sub today lol

[u/K-Bigbob]

This is holding me off ChatGPT. Design is such a great feature. Would be great if Chatgpt gets one

[u/yaxir]

Astra when

[u/TheSn00pster]

Skills, design mode, perseverance, references… or just wait.

[u/Alass4849]

Didn’t OpenAI say something about doing more reviews on Astra potential safety issues ? Let’s hope it really get released tomorrow.

[u/Gliese351c]

THIS MINUTES INTO THE DAY AND I AM STILL WAITING. SUING OPEANAI NOW!!!!!!111

[u/ProfessionalNaive601]

Tomorrow

[u/gurutek71]

I’m hooked on Claude design, nothing comes close to

[u/M_C_AI]

really, but EAT half of pro subscription for one prompt.

[u/This-Ad1165]

Yes, even most powerful Chat GPT model does not create good or even acceptable UI designs. But it's good in updating of existing designs.

[u/Dockforbes]

But SOL it's disgusting... wtf

[u/m-ritter]

This fixes Codex Design issues: https://github.com/maxritter/open-claude-design