OpenAI Says GPT-6 Astra Runs 40 Minutes on One Task. Your Agent Loop Probably Can't.

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Your agent starts a task at 14:02. It reads the ticket, opens the repo, edits four files, runs the test suite, reads the failures, edits two more files. At 14:33 someone merges to main and the deploy rolls your pods. The process disappears mid-tool-call.

OpenAI Says GPT-6 Astra Runs 40 Minutes on One Task. Your Agent Loop Probably Can't.

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