IMAGE MODEL · OPENAI AUTONOMOUS, BUT NOT CHEAP
Astra.
- Episodes
- 06
- First seen
- 045 JUL 06 2025
- Last seen
- 084 SEP 27 2026
- Spoken mentions
- 56
The Fast Hours take
Rory and Drew are impressed by Astra's raw autonomy — two unsupervised sessions once built a full golf-course design from topographical data over 24 hours, while also rebuilding a typewriter in Blender and driving Midjourney via computer use (Ep. 82) — but the cost is real: that run burned '70 percent' of Rory's weekly allotment, and Ingi calls a single day's spend 'unreasonable' (Ep. 82, 83). Head-to-head on a motion-graphic prompt, Drew still called its result 'not close' to Opus 5.5 (Ep. 84).
Into it 4Mixed 0 Not sold 1Discussed 1 oldest → newest
Receipts about Astra
“Now I have a full view of the golf course that freaking built by itself. … it just worked straight for twenty four hours and I cut it off. I'm like, you guys are burning. You burned seventy percent of my of my weekly allotment.”
Every episode with Astra
- Episode 84 SEP 27 2026 Opus 5.5 Is Cracked! AI Videos You Can Actually Edit Drew ran the same motion-graphic prompt on it head-to-head; called the result "not close" to Opus 5.5 Not sold
- Episode 83 SEP 20 2026 20 Year Creative Vet Sold Golden Wolf to Doodles, Then Went All-In on AI Got Ingi into agentic workflows, though he calls the spend on it ('a hundred pounds yesterday') unreasonable Into it
- Episode 82 SEP 13 2026 What Can OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 Actually Do? Ran two sessions that negotiated and built a real golf-course design on topographical data over 24 unsupervised hours; also rebuilt a typewriter in Blender and drove Midjourney via computer use Into it
- Episode 81 SEP 06 2026 How We Use AI to Run Our Businesses With Skills, Agents & MCPs Anticipated release neither host had access to yet; expected to push 3D and spatial use cases forward Discussed
- Episode 46 JUL 25 2025 Using Midjourney Video Loops & End Frames: Live Teardown Brief shoutout: 'I love Astra for what it is' Into it
- Episode 45 JUL 06 2025 Midjourney Video Breakdown Part 2 Upscales a morph video to 4K/120fps, giving it a smooth, near-3D look Into it
Quick answers
When did Fast Hours first talk about Astra?
Astra first came up in Episode 45, “Midjourney Video Breakdown Part 2”, published July 6, 2025.
What is the latest Fast Hours episode about Astra?
The most recent is Episode 84, “Opus 5.5 Is Cracked! AI Videos You Can Actually Edit” (September 27, 2026).
How many Fast Hours episodes discuss Astra?
6 episodes so far. In the 6 we have logged in detail, Rory and Drew were into it 4 times, mixed 0, not sold 1, and simply discussed it 1.
