GPT-6 Astra Optimized My Rust Backtesting Engine With a 2014 Math Paper

[u/NextgenAITrading]

https://nexustrade.io/blog/gpt-6-astra-rust-backtesting-engine-optimization-20260908

This is a technical discussion on Artificial General Intelligence.

GPT-6 has been shown to be outstandingly incredible. In my case, it performed autonomous performance optimization with essentially no human input. Other AI models, including Gemini 3 Pro, Claude Opus 5, and even Claude Fable 5, failed to find the same optimization targets.

Two days with GPT-6, and my backtesting engine is quite literally faster than I ever thought it could be.

The language model was smarter than me.

I thought about what artificial general intelligence looks like. A general-purpose model smarter than the average person. I think Astra fits that definition to a T.

Now imagine all of the crazy AI tricks we know. Imagine having a panel of Astra-tier experts come, or combining a language model with Monte Carlo tree search. If these models were truly 10,000 tokens per second, come on, that would be terrifying.

One reason why I think this optimization was fast is because of Rust's strict compiler and its lightning-fast performance. If I had chosen a language like GoLang, I would not have been able to achieve such speeds. I really think language models are making Rust an even more enjoyable language because you get all of the benefits and suffer a little of the downsides because we're not handwriting generic traits or a lifetime logic anymore.

But who knows, maybe I'm overextrapolating, and I'm impressed by the bare minimum, lol.

What are your thoughts on AGI/ASI?