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Sottiaux posted on X that internal Astra use boosted productivity enough to move plans up six months. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months (The Decoder) · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:cccf6b59d028a787a02e83958ad3f67eb7712efa30ff7154a10a7b8a404dcca3

OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux poured some gas on the hype fire. Astra was probably OpenAI's “biggest competitive advantage” while it wasn't publicly available, he wrote on X. Since the team started using it internally, productivity jumped so much that some plans got moved up by six months.