GoKawiilDeveloper finds GPT-6 'Astra' burns billions of tokens with no usable code output
A software engineer tested OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model by setting up an autonomous 'software factory' where the model managed its own workflow, context and subagents to build a Python variant with virtual threads and lexical scoping. After roughly 35 hours and about 4 billion tokens consumed, the effort produced nothing usable and taught the author little about how to actually apply the model to real software engineering work.