Overly long skill descriptions, blanket reading requirements, and rigid approval rules can get in GPT-6 Astra's way, warns OpenAI's Eric Provencher. More capable models need less hand-holding, so developers should tie instructions to specific tasks and spell out when the job is done.

OpenAI called GPT-6 Astra the arrival of AGI. Buried in the same announcement: it's also better at not including "incriminating information" in its reasoning traces. Here's what…

OpenAI's newest model can navigate software, sustain long coding sessions, produce professional...