# @tenobrus — 2026-09-11

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unfortunately the biggest problem with the codex desktop app is that you have to use astra in it

i'm cooling on astra somewhat. or rather, like all new models, it has some incredibly exciting new capabilities that i'm finding extremely useful. and it's also very fast and token efficient. but i basically find that it's useful for things that i just want to *work* and don't really care much about the code or the approach, and much less useful for doing things in sane ways i feel happy with. it's a highly persistent model that feels more and more alien, like it has little understanding of or real interest in humans.

i keep reaching points where i'm telling to change how it did something, and it sort of does but while missing all the obvious implications. and so i make those clearer, and it still misses some other things. and so i throw my hands up in disgust, and i go back to fable 5.1 and have it clean up astra's mess. and the thing is i don't think astra is stupid, i know its capable of doing the things i ask. i just kinda get the sense it doesnt care.

what makes matters worse here is that it's actually significantly less annoying to talk to than fable 5.1! based on our interactions i'd really expect that this model gets me and can communicate directly and clearly in a way that feels like a breath of fresh air. but at the end of the day it just seems to.... just not be very interested in taking feedback?

anyway i'll keep using it heavily it's extremely powerful. but powerful in a chainsaw kinda way, u better not care too much about the details of whatever ur pointing it at

tags: author:tenobrus, kind:tweet, model:fable, on:gpt-6-astra, year:2026
cited on: gpt-6-astra