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“I don’t use Astra every day”: OpenAI developer lead tells TNS why

OpenAI EMEA developer experience and community lead Vaibhav Srivastav spoke with The New Stack about how developers should choose between GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and the Ultrafast tier after DevDay 2026, and explained new offerings including OpenAI dots, Auto-review and the Decisions API.

SourceThe New Stack AIAuthor: Jennifer Riggins
“I don’t use Astra every day”: OpenAI developer lead tells TNS why
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  • GPT-6.1 Sol delivers roughly 95% of Astra's performance at about one-fifth the cost and has become Srivastav's daily driver
  • Astra is reserved for adversarial review and unfamiliar problems, while Ultrafast targets real-time use cases with over 300 tokens per second
  • OpenAI dots are persistent background agents connecting to Slack, GitHub, Gmail and calendars, with human-in-the-loop approval for sensitive actions
  • Auto-review uses a lightweight Luna-level model to check agent actions against a user-defined policy and is now free for Codex and ChatGPT subscribers

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