Any early impressions of GPT-6 Astra for creative writing specifically?
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A user on Reddit is seeking early impressions of GPT-6 Astra, specifically for creative writing. They note that the launch material focuses on computer use, agentic coding, and cyber capabilities, with no mention of prose. The user is interested in common failure points, such as repetitive rhythms, maintaining character voice over long contexts, and the model's ability to challenge weak ideas rather than just executing them. They also question if reasoning effort settings, typically tuned for other tasks, impact writing performance.
I use ChatGPT almost entirely for creative writing, and everything in the launch material is computer use, agentic coding and cyber capabilities. Nothing about prose.
If you've had access, I'm curious about the usual failure points rather than benchmarks: does it still collapse into the same rhythms over a long piece, does it hold a character voice across a long context, does it push back on a weak idea or just execute it. Also whether the reasoning effort settings change anything for writing, since those are presumably tuned for other tasks.