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AI → Money → Freedom
Building in public.

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https://t.co/IDnPPbPPzS

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@lexx_aura the colors and that sky are gorgeous, feels like a painting in motion. how long did it take to get this shot?

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@bedros_p nice catch. any guess which gemini version is hiding behind the eap name?

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@Xmbluee motion looks so clean here. was this one prompt or did you use reference images?

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@AutismCapital the in-group thing is real, seen people use ai quietly and bash it publicly

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@Dr_Singularity the pace this year already feels unreal. what do you think is the first discovery normal people will actually notice?

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@mark_k 28 in 28 days is crazy generous. is this for all plans or just pro?

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@applitank sad but kinda expected, maintainers were drowning in junk reports. do you think others will follow?

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@MizusPuddle fair point, most people can't tell the difference in a blind test anyway. what would you say are the actual reasons?

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@Teknium almost 500 already is wild. any plugins you'd call must have for someone just starting with hermes?

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@guilherme94jose the lighting and those crooked sets are so hard to fake, models always smooth it out. faust still looks unreal

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@Mekarly native 30 sec is the part that changes things for me. how consistent do characters stay across keyframes?

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Round two of the pokeable test: an egg yolk you can poke, pierce, tilt and toast. Same prompt, Opus 5.5 vs Astra 6.

This time the numbers flip. Opus: 31 min, $6.60. Astra: 47 min, $5.60. In the soap bubble round Opus was the cheaper one, here it's faster but a dollar more expensive. One run each, so no trend yet.

On plating, Astra's looks like real breakfast: browned crisp edge on the white, glossy plate. In this frame Opus reads more like orange gel on a matte plate. But the bubble round already showed that stills lie. The touch is the test.

Pierce it, tilt it, see which yolk actually runs like one. Which would you ship?

link below

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Same prompt, two models: a soap bubble you can poke, blow, split and pop. Astra looks better. Opus feels better.

Astra 6: 35 min, $5.90. Opus 5.5: 38 min, $4.30. Both land on almost the same toolbox, film thickness, surface tension, sound, and both look great in the clip. Astra's frames read like a product page.

The tester's verdict is all about touch: Opus stretches under your finger, wobbles when you blow on it, and the pop has real sound and a tiny spray. Astra's just kind of floats there being pretty.

Looks vs feel, for $1.60 less. Which one would you ship?

You can pop the bubbles yourself, link below.

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@airplanestar_ exactly, and $1.60 per run adds up quick once you're iterating dozens of times

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@jurlycat agreed, polish wins the screenshot, feel wins the second you touch it

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Same prompt, two models: a soap bubble you can poke, blow, split and pop. Astra looks better. Opus feels better.

Astra 6: 35 min, $5.90. Opus 5.5: 38 min, $4.30. Both land on almost the same toolbox, film thickness, surface tension, sound, and both look great in the clip. Astra's frames read like a product page.

The tester's verdict is all about touch: Opus stretches under your finger, wobbles when you blow on it, and the pop has real sound and a tiny spray. Astra's just kind of floats there being pretty.

Looks vs feel, for $1.60 less. Which one would you ship?

You can pop the bubbles yourself, link below.

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@otlg30 that would explain why the difference shows up so much in visual tasks. thanks for the context

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Same exact prompt. Same model. Four days apart. The second city looks like a different render pipeline entirely.

GPT-6.1 Sol felt suspiciously good today, good enough to actually go back and rerun the Sept 29 version side by side. The Oct 2 city holds its impossible folding geometry with cleaner shadows, tighter building detail, and a smoother fold where the street bends back on itself overhead, the kind of upgrade that usually comes with a version number attached, not silently between two Tuesdays.

Nobody announced a change. The model just quietly got better at the exact same task, and now sits close enough to Astra that the gap is starting to feel like a rounding error.

Whatever's going on behind the scenes, this is the better version.

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@elshayib_ you think they'd cut limits right after going public? feels like that would push a lot of people away

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@prthgo "you ship the extra layers when the weights aren't winning" is a good line. do you think it changes once they drop the next model though?

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@Solvaix checking the scale before drawing anything is the impressive part. does the dxf open clean or does it need fixing after?

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@theo oh nice, didn't expect it to track usage outside t3 code too. does it split by model per project?