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Claude Opus 5.5

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  1. abtinf · · focus · HN ↗
    Astra is just so good. And the ChatGPT subscription lets me use my own harness, so I can hook it up to exe.dev.

    I’ll be going about my day, have a random idea, launch a microvm on exe.dev with a prompt of my idea, and get a working thing a few minutes later.

    I don’t know how much better a model would have to be to get me to move off OpenAI at this point, but doing just a little bit better in terminal bench 4 isn’t it. It would have to be a difference in kind, like opening up the harness restrictions, or privacy guarantees (comparable to offline models).

    Edit to address questions below:

    ChatGPT supports oauth login.

    Exe.dev has it built in. IIRC, pi also has it built in via /login.

    1. cbg0 · · focus · HN ↗
      How about cheaper? Astra is $10 in $50 out, Opus is $4 in $20 out. Even on a subscription you'll get considerably more usage out of Opus.
      1. margorczynski · · focus · HN ↗
        In the end what matters is how much you pay for the task you want completed. And Astra will usually do that using less token and offer a better quality solution so in the end it might be cheaper.
        1. jasbury · · focus · HN ↗
          This. I was fed up today with constantly correcting Opus for a specific task. So I finally decided to try Astra. It handled all of my prompts in one go.
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