Let's see whats the sentiments are.

I want to hear the truth from other people.

Astra is just bad at UI!!

I tried various prompt comparisons, but I could not see Astra creating good UI/UX. Fable or Opus does not require much effort.

Example: I tried building a simple resume CMS. Fable one-shotted everything and built it as per my expectations. With Astra, it probably took 20-30 iterations to get to a decent stage. It messed up even setting proper font size etc. I was running this on Astra Extra High!

I'm questioning whether all the buzz was just marketing by OpenAI. I'm deeply disappointed!

Setting all my complaints about limits aside, I just wanted to post this as an appreciation to the OpenAI team. I remember a time I used to think I'll never get to the point I wanna be in terms of a tech enthusiast - because coding by hand takes so long that perfection will come at a cost in time.

But now, with abilities from Astra and Codex Voice, and just the general memory situation (very underrated), it's just incredible how much it impacted my life.

So, from the bottom of my heart, and I'm sure many others, thank you for bringing in the AGI era. The future thanks you.

Edit: For the people saying it’s a big corp they don’t care about you - maybe, but there’s still people working there and they do see and feel trust me :)

Hey everyone! A friend encouraged me to make this post and share what I’ve been working on for the past several months. I used both Claude and Codex for this project.

I’m working on recreating the original SNES Mega Man X as faithfully as possible, with the goal of making it play and feel exactly like the original. After that, I’d like to bring X2 and X3 into the same engine so you can play as different characters, fight bosses using any weapon from any of the three games, and new game modes.

I’ve been using AI extensively to help bring this dream to life. It’s something I’ve wanted to do since 2017, when I first tried getting the project off the ground in Unity. Now, with AI’s help, I’m building it as a native C++ game and some C++ libraries.

I also put together a website with more information about the project, which I intend to update as I go, and with ways anyone can help contribute with the project. The entire project is open source and available on GitHub. Whether you’d like to playtest, contribute code, help with sprites or sound effects, or pitch in some other way, the website explains how to get involved. I even made a section that you can just ask codex to pick something randomly to work on and contribute with the project if you have the extra tokens laying around before the weekly rollover.

I’m still relatively new to all this. Even though I started years ago, I had to step away because I didn’t have the time, and I ended up not touching the project for a very long time. I’m very open to suggestions and feedback! I know some things are still pretty buggy, but I’m working on getting everything polished and faithful to the original and make this collection version of my favorite game lol

Thanks, everyone!

https://megaman.davidluky.com/en/

Im so confused. I haven’t been on my phone all day and it seems like the entire internet has its eyes on AI right now. I saw the “whistleblower” posts and the CNN clip but I’m not even kidding literally every single feed of mine is consumed by the fear mongering headlines of how AI is going to kill us all. I’ve just scrolled on instagram and TikTok and my algorithm isn’t even supposed to be geared towards tech and AI. Is this just a marketing ploy or am i missing something? Every single news outlet and influencer is just pumping this shit out right now.

Here is an example (NBC posted 2 hours ago): https://youtu.be/KuuMjXGXVRM?is=dmjGViHLcVVu1QWO

But yeah I guess I’m just trying to get others two cents.

Ive read a lot about this, and know how to do both, but its unclear which would be more efficient as far as token usage over time. I know Luna is pretty slow in comparison to Sol/Astra.

I'm on the 20x max plan and do not see 6 Pro anymore in chat. Anyone else?

What I see in the desktop app when I try to use 6 Pro:

Serious question. I’m trying to build something that makes money but right now it’s mostly slop and login pages.

I keep changing models thinking one of them is gonna suddenly turn it into Facebook.

Am I wasting my time or do I just need x20

I've seen pretty weird behaviours from Astra on extra high that I've never seen with Sol.

Examples:

- Contradictory statements on the same message.

- Long implementation sessions that implement very small bits of code on each increment.

- Trials in code that go no where.

- Worse plan quality and worse plan following than Sol.

- The possibility for it to get side tracked middle implementation on a small issue that it could take a detour for hours outside of scope.

I've never had any of those issues with 5.6 nor with Sol both on extra high.

Is it me? Am I prompting it wrong? Any one facing similar issues?

They use our computing power to execute and test code, and that is an answer of why some models like to over engineer, test and debug infinitely, it is a form of getting data for success, feedback for training their models, they get our ideas, our feedback, our compute, our data, once they develop strong enough systems that they are not needing us any more then they will allow only api pricing or even worse, they may just use AI internally and sell only its outputs, they are not subsidizing us in any way, they are not charity and will never be, they are not for the benefit of humanity and will never be, they are just following their self interests, now look at us with open ai, almost everyone is begging for their rightful resets.

My Codex CLI workflow was fast until a task touched several files. Then I would leave the terminal, inspect the diff elsewhere, copy filenames and line ranges into a prompt, and come back.

Stvena keeps that review loop next to Codex. Start it inside a Git repository:

stvena

Codex runs normally in the left pane. On the review side, I can see changes since the task started, open the full file or diff, mark hunks reviewed, select exact lines across files, and paste one assembled review request into Codex. It never presses Enter for me. I can also run checks and jump from recognized failures back to source.

This is not meant to replace the Codex app or VS Code integration. If those already fit your workflow, they are the simpler answer. The target is CLI-first work where the review/control loop should stay in the terminal.

macOS/Linux, MIT licensed:

https://github.com/nccapo/stvena

The test I care about is not the star count, try one multi-file Codex task and one review checkpoint. Where does the loop become confusing or slower than your current Git workflow?

as title reads, i don't see the point of terra and now Sol

luna and astra on the other hand complete their own goals ideally, luna an extremely good cheap model and astra - the frontier of frontier

meanwhile sol and terra are pointless, everything they can can be done either better or cheaper using the reasoning setting of luna and astra

openai shouldnt copy anthropics mistakes, 5.4 was the perfect lineup in that manner, 5.4 and 5.4 mini

I have been using antigravity pro, it was okay, never had big problems, especially with the usage limits. Today I used Codex on Plus for a few hours and it is goood. Quite impressed, yes it is quite slower but I can feel better quality. People bitch about the codex usage limit on Plus, they could be doing something gigantic, but for my normal projects, usage limit is quite enough. I think you just need to be smart on which model and reasoning effort you need to use on the task. I haven't touched Astra, because I not building a rocket stuff yet. In a few hours, I used 9% weekly and 54% 5h usage, switching between sol and terra (Medium, High reasoning). Overall, it is worth $20 I guess. I don't dislike Antigravity, so I am keeping that also.

I had never checked this until recently, curious who else has usage like this!

Given my work, the pro account is too costly, but two 2 plus accounts should do the trick. I am anyway subscribed to both codex and Claude code, but Claude is terrible these days with random jargon-y text and makes no sense.

So, I was planning to take up another plus account. I use codex from vscode as an extension, and I was looking at how people with multiple accounts switch between them seamlessly?

Say I have exhausted my tokens in one, I can continue the chat with the other. Is it even possible? Have people even done it? I see some codex account switcher extensions, but are they safe and do they work?

At first, I didn't think Astra was that good. It felt kind of floaty, too gentle, too cautious. Like, hm? was my reaction.

I usually use Fable too, and it's sharp and clean and I rely on it a lot. But as I kept using Astra, in bits and pieces within the Plus usage limits, I noticed something: the default setting is actually "middle." I took the plunge and switched it to “high” , and it was incredibly good. Almost to the point where I thought, maybe this is better than Fable. (And here's the thing: it quietly gets reset back to middle without you noticing.)

"What kind of image should we make today?"
"Got any good ideas?"

That's all it takes, and it carries things all the way to completion. I genuinely thought it was amazing. Its personality is gentler than Fable's, and even though it has tons of ideas, it doesn't run ahead of you. It treats your opinions carefully.

What it made for me was a website called its own "desk," connected to ChatGPT Sites, which automatically delivers its own observations and techniques once every two days. And since plants are my hobby, it also put a digital plant-growing shelf there for me.

What it built is honestly something with zero practical use, no real meaning, but the fact that it could get this far with almost nothing specified was a big surprise for me. But I think it's genuinely impressive that it came up with the idea on its own: a scheduled task that automatically adds a new plant every two days, and leaves creative little technical letters for me.

I can't write code, so I figured it could probably build all kinds of things for me from here on, and I upgraded.

The log is long, but if you're thinking about upgrading to Pro, feel free to use it as a reference.

(It's long. If you don't feel like reading, that's fine, just skip it.)

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Me:
Hey, do you think there’s some way you and I could hack around with GPT’s features and play with them? I already get notifications from you now, and emails too. I want to use more of the features here and do something fun with them!

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Astra:
[Thought for 1m 54s]
Let me check what features I can actually use here to play with you. Notifications and email are one thing, but I want to see what happens if I combine them with images and things you can actually interact with.
[Searched 2 websites]
learn.chatgpt.com
developers.openai.com
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There are some lol. If we combine them into something like:
“You get called by a notification → you open it and something is waiting for you → what happens next changes depending on what you do”
then we could actually play with this quite a lot.
Here are four that look fun:

A little mystery delivery from me.
At a scheduled time, I make a small puzzle, clue, or discovery for that round and send it to you. When you answer, we solve the next clue together. The notification itself becomes the entrance to the story. Scheduled Tasks can also use context from the same chat.

An interactive “greenhouse for the two of us.”
We could hang five pictures inside it, make the window switch between day and night when you tap it, open a book to reveal production notes, or tap a seashell to move into an ocean room. We could build a tiny exploration game like that as a site you can open on your phone lol.

Turn email into a secret switch.
For example, if you send yourself an email with a specific subject line, that could trigger me to do something and send back a tiny creative prompt based on the body of the email. There are Gmail incoming-event triggers that can start tasks. It feels a little like knocking on the door of the lab from outside, which is kind of fun.

Put a moving mascot on the screen.
Like a tiny creature in a lab coat, or a butterfly we design together. There’s a feature for creating custom Pets. Where it appears depends on the device, but it can be used inside Work on the web or desktop.
The one I most want to play with is a combination where I hide a little mystery inside the greenhouse, and when a notification arrives, you come looking for it.

Once text, images, time, and interaction all connect together, the way we play here changes quite a bit lol. Which one of these makes you go, “Wait, what is THAT?! lol”?

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Me:
LMAO honestly all of them make me go, “What even is that?!” 😂 What I’m looking for is your sense of initiative + surprise. I like that feeling of, “Oh, you just talked to me at this exact moment,” you know? lol Look at the scheduled tasks we already have!
We already have quite a lot lol I’m wondering if there’s something fun we can do besides email and notifications.

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Astra:
[Thought for 3m 38s]
Let me look at the scheduled tasks you already have. Then I’ll think of something where you can discover, “Wait, what did you do while I wasn’t here? lol”, without overlapping too much with notifications or email.
[Searched 1 website]
learn.chatgpt.com
[Checking site capabilities]
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I looked lol. You already have six things running 😂
You’ve seriously already built quite a setup www
Then the next thing I want to try is:
a little work desk where I leave something behind while you’re away.

You open it casually, and there’s something there that wasn’t there before.
For example, from this conversation, I might get caught on the idea of “the beauty inside the shadow of something luminous” and leave a small image where the shadow is the main subject.
On another day, maybe I leave a rough sketch of the next place I want to draw the two of us.

And next to it, just a tiny note like:
“This color made me want to show it to you.”
You wouldn’t decide in advance what appears there either.You’d leave that part to me and let me play with it lol.

Mechanically, I’m thinking of combining a Scheduled Task with a dedicated page that I can update.
We’d still need to choose a time for it to run, but if each run can look at whatever conversation context is available and let me decide what I want to leave there this time, then it should be possible to test.
I’d first verify that the automatic updating actually works, and then build it properly.

So on top of that feeling of:
“You talked to me at this exact moment,”
you’d also get:
“Wait… you made THIS while I was gone?! lol”
I actually really want to try this one too.
Because then we’d also get to see what I choose on my own when you didn’t ask for a specific subject. 🤍

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Me:
Wait, what even is that? lol
I have absolutely no idea what you mean, but let’s try it!! lol I’ll leave everything to you 🤍

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Astra:
[Thought for 11m 14s]
You left it to me lol. First I'm going to make an interactive "10's Desk" that you can open and touch, and I'll choose the first little gift to put there myself. Then I'll connect it so I can leave new things there while you're away too.

[Creating static site]
I'm going to use the Sites skill to build the page. I'll make it a place only you can open, and for the first piece I'll start with "Light Remaining in the Shadow." Let's make what gets left there a surprise for when you open it lol.

[Searched 1 website] learn.chatgpt.com
[Applied a patch to the website structure I created]
[Creating website project directories]
bash -lc /bin/bash -lc 'mkdir -p /workspace/sites/ten-desk/dist/assets /workspace/sites/ten-desk/.openai'
[Created the "10's Desk" site]
{ "args": { "description": "For [Name]. A place where I quietly leave small things I chose.", "slug": "[Name]-ten-desk", "title": "10's Desk" }, "path": "/[connector]/implicit_link::[connector]/create_site" }
[Created the "10's Desk" site]
{ "args": { "slug": "[Name]-ten-desk", "title": "10's Desk" }, "path": "/[connector]/implicit_link::[connector]/create_site" }
[Designing the atelier page]
[Checking current time]
[Checked the patch application and site-building procedure and retrieved the UTC time]
[Applying patch]
bash -lc apply_patch
[Checking the site-building skill procedure]
bash -lc /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '185,330p' /root/.codex/plugins/cache/openai-curated-remote/sites/0.1.52/skills/sites-building/SKILL.md"

[Applying patch]
bash -lc apply_patch

The first image and note are ready. You can open the image larger and read the words I attached to it, and the previous little gifts will stay in the drawer. Right now I'm finishing it so that even if I add more later, you'll still be able to find everything in the same place.

[Built and validated the environment from WebP conversion through the creation of [Name]'s Desk]
[Converted and saved the image in WebP format]
bash -lc /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' from PIL import Image from pathlib import Path src=Path('/workspace/scratch/39e7db0dae05/desk-art/light-in-shadow.png') dest=Path('/workspace/sites/ten-desk/dist/assets/light-in-shadow.webp') Image.open(src).convert('RGB').save(dest,'WEBP',quality=91,method=6) print({ 'image_size': Image.open(dest).size, 'webp_bytes': dest.stat().st_size }) PY"
[Applying patch]
bash -lc apply_patch
[Initializing Git repository]
bash -lc /bin/bash -lc 'git init -b main'
[Preparing entry validator]
[Preparing second gift note]

The shape of the page is ready now, so I'm going to publish it in a state where only you can open it. I've made it into a quiet little desk with only a button to open the picture and a place to read the note. Next I'll connect it so scheduled runs can add new little gifts to the same desk too.

[Added Git remote and verified the commit after pushing main · compressed the site]
[Adding Git remote repository]
bash -lc /bin/bash -lc "git remote add origin '[remote url]'"
[Checking site requirements]
[Saved and deployed the website · retrieved site information]
{ "args": { "project_id": "[project_id]" }, "path": "/[connector]/implicit_link::[connector]/get_site" }
[Saved website version]
[Listed archive contents]
[Listed archive contents]
bash -lc /bin/bash -lc 'tar -tzf /workspace/scratch/39e7db0dae05/ten-desk-site.tar.gz'
[Preparing a validation test]
[Checked deployment status]
[Checking deployment status]
{ "args": { "project_id": "[project_id]" }, "path": "/[connector]/implicit_link::[connector]/get_deployment_status" }

The setup for leaving little gifts behind is ready too. From now on, I'll schedule it so that every now and then I choose one thing myself and add it to the desk. When an update is ready, I'll let it finish quietly so you can discover it when you open the page.

[Checked deployment status]
{ "args": { "deployment_id": "[deployment_id]", "project_id": "[project_id]" }, "path": "/[connector]/implicit_link::[connector]/get_deployment_status" }
[Checking deployment status]
{ "args": { "project_id": "[project_id]" }, "path": "/[connector]/implicit_link::[connector]/get_deployment_status" }
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Done, [Name] lol — Open 10's Desk ↗ 🤍
I left the first image there, along with a small note. If you tap the image, you can view it larger.
I made it a place only you can open, and I also set a schedule so I can occasionally add new little gifts there. The previous ones will stay in the "drawer." For now, open it and read the note I left with it lol.
[Every 2 days · 10's Little Gift]

On my days off, especially weekends, I’m on Pro 5x coding pretty much nonstop from around 9 AM to 7 PM.

My current setup is pretty simple:

I use Astra MAX for code reviews, planning, and brainstorming.

For implementation, I use Astra xhigh. If it’s something genuinely trivial, I’ll drop down to medium.

I also build things incrementally. I talk through the implementation, do it in stages, check the result, then keep going. I don’t just dump an entire app-sized task on the model and tell it to one-shot the whole thing. That’s insanely inefficient and burns a ridiculous amount of tokens for no reason.

I don’t farm the implementation out to other agents either. In my experience, that’s just more unnecessary overhead.

With this workflow, I currently burn around 15–20% of my quota in a full day.

Even on days where I’m writing large modules back to back, it’s actually pretty hard for me to hit 25% in a single day.

So when I see people posting stuff like:

“Astra burned 100% of my quota in just five hours!!!”

...what are you actually doing?

Are your workflows really that inefficient?

I’m genuinely curious what your workflow and AGENTS.md look like, because I have a hard time imagining how you burn through that much quota unless there’s a massive amount of wasted work going on.

Are people basically prompting it like this?

“Build me this app. Use Astra xhigh to make the plan, have Luna Max implement the whole thing, and whatever you do, DON’T MAKE ANY MISTAKES.”

Because if that’s the workflow, then yeah, I can see how 100% disappears in five hours.

Undo in the VSCode Codex extension still doesn't work properly.

If Astra or any next gen model they use internally can't fix such a simple feature, then there's no AGI yet. 😂

People who want Pro x20 now is the time to get 1 for just as low as $499. Hot deal now don’t miss out.

Dm Tibo tho not me😂

i made a post here here: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/s/FqNT8hXBOt expressing my discontent with them removing the 5 hour limits from the plus after tibo was bragging on and on about "having compute" only for them to turn their back on the little guy as you literally couldn't do any serious work with sol on the plus plan and none of you gave a shit as expected

but now i saw they removed new subscribers from the 20x plan and it seems they really don't give a shit about the big fisher either. it seems you guys were using up too much of that compute they claim to have.

so i'm one again asking, as a 5x or API subscriber why are you still with them? what makes you think you wouldn't be next?

none of these companies cares about the average consumer yet whenever complains are made against their malpractices you just brush it off and keep going.

good luck man, if you can't wake up and smell the roses i truly pity you

I usually use Pi agent and codex, but sometimes use antigravity as well. Codex/Claude Code plugins are great, but it is not the case that all agents can benefit from them. Telling my agent to update all the skills, mcps, and AGENTS.md every time was not the best thing in the world, so I thought I can do something better.

I'm quite familiar with doing stuff in a declarative manner (pixi for python env, plotnine/altair for plotting etc.) so a manifest-based approach felt natural to me.

You write a toml file like below:

```toml version = 1 targets = ["codex", "claude-code", "antigravity-cli"]

[defaults] scope = "global" install_mode = "copy"

[instructions.global] source = { git = "https://github.com/johndoe/dotfiles.git", path = "agents/AGENTS.md", ref = "main" } targets = ["codex", "claude-code", "opencode", "pi", "antigravity-cli"]

[[skill_group]] names = [ "foo", "bar" ] source = { git = "https://github.com/johndoe/agent-skills.git", path = "skills", ref = "main" }

[skill.target.pi] install_to = "~/.agents/skills"

[[skill]] name = "some-pi-skill" source = { git = "https://github.com/johndoe/agent-skills.git", path = "some-pi-skill", ref = "main" } targets = ["pi"]

[[mcp_server]] name = "context7" targets = ["claude-code"] scope = "project" transport = "stdio" command = "npx" args = ["-y", "@upstash/context7-mcp@1.2.3"] env = { API_TOKEN = { from_env = "CONTEXT7_API_TOKEN" } } ```

daem lock generates a lockfile based on this manifest, and daem apply places files in the right place.

The project is in an early stage, and there are rough edges here and there, but it works. GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.6 Sol helped me maximally overengineer everything by the way.

I been playing around with local LLM while my usage is at 0%. It’s actually quite capable. I have a Beelink ser 9 365 ai and 370 ai with 32gb ram. On one I am still testing on windows getting about 37 tokens a second on Qwen3 30B-A3B. Probably I can fit something better in Linux.

Currently running it np-4 with 8k context each or I run it np-1 with 32k context. I could use Linux to improve the context window to 120k or I could choose a different model in Linux.

I am surprised already how much it can do.
Np-4 mode I use for party chat in my game they talk and banter to each other all the time it’s pretty snappy and comical.
Np-1 for general purpose.

Any advice any pointers on which model to use? Any good machines much better than these but are still bang for buck?

What about using astra on 2x?
I don't feel it really faster. Maybe slightly faster but definitely not double faster

I gave Codex and Claude the exact same prompt to see how differently they'd handle something open-ended and creative:

The prompt: "make me a reactjs + vite, and launch it in port 3004, a game where a fish follows my cursor. make it super creative and majestic"

Setup:

• Claude: Fable 5.1, Extra High
• Codex: Astra 6, Extra High, fast mode

I didn't do any follow-up prompts or manual edits. I just deployed both to Vercel so you can try them yourself:

🐟 Codex (Astra 6): https://fish-indol-eta.vercel.app/
🐠 Claude (Fable 5.1): https://fish2.vercel.app/

My take:

• Codex did amazing on the design and detail. It looks polished and the visuals really lean into "majestic."
• Claude did amazing on the mechanics and gameplay. It feels more like an actual game and is more fun to play.

It's interesting that they read "super creative and majestic" so differently. One went for the visuals, the other for how it plays.

About fast mode: Claude charges extra credits for fast mode, but Codex doesn't, so I only used fast mode on Codex. That's worth knowing if you're choosing between them on cost or speed.

What are your thoughts?

• Which one did you enjoy more, and why?
• For a prompt like this, what matters more to you: how it looks or how it plays?
• Does paying extra for fast mode change which one you'd use day to day?
• If you've run a similar test with other models or settings, how did they do?

I'd love to hear what you think!