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Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra: the jelly test 🍉
@vib3coded preferred the Opus version, but it cost $4.50 in API fees compared with $2.05 for Astra.
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Finally, Opus made me the perfect jelly - even better than Astra’s 🍉🤯
Claude Opus 5.5 vs ChatGPT-6 Astra
This time, I prefer Opus: the juicy color, glossy flesh, and especially how the slice stretches, folds, and jiggles when you let go. It genuinely looks like gummy candy I want to touch
Astra’s version is nice too, but Opus gets my vote here
Estimated API cost:
Opus - $4.50
Astra - $2.05
More than twice the price. Do you think it’s worth it? 👀
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Big companies are worried that the frontier labs they rent compute from today could launch the products that compete with them tomorrow. It’s a big reason so many of them now run open models on their own devices. Jeffrey Morgan of Ollama joins Jason to discuss that shift, the million-dollar AI bills nobody can explain, and his bet that most everyday AI work will soon happen right on your desk.
@jason @jmorgan @ollama
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