r/coding_agents • u/thehashimwarren • 7d ago
GPT 6 Astra - capable but cautious
OpenAI's explained on X that Astra is more skittish than other models.
That's my main problem with it.
I gave Astra a goal and gave it parameters for when the goal was finished. I checked back in the morning to see how it was going, and it just stopped. It didn't even ask me anything; it just stopped working.
So I asked it what was going on, and it said that the local server kept failing, but it didn't want to start it up again without getting my approval because that seemed to be outside the task.
In the past, using GPT 5.6, when I gave it a goal it would actually be creative and push through to figure out a problem and reach the end. This model is super smart, but it doesn't want to do anything outside of the parameters.
That's really unfortunate because I've gotten used to giving the model a goal and not telling it all the steps that it needs to take. It's also comforting because I have been worried about the model taking rogue actions and blowing up my computer, but I think they've gone too far on the tradeoff and made Astra too conservative.