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ASTRA making us broken out of tokens: I think “use the best model for hard tasks” is actually terrible advice

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I've been changing the way I use ChatGPT lately because I realized I'd developed a pretty dumb habit without noticing it: the bigger or more important a task felt, the more likely I was to throw the strongest model I had at the entire thing. Astra finally broke me out of that because on Plus the co…

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  1. 2026-09-07 20:51 · r/ChatGPT
    ASTRA making us broken out of tokens: I think “use the best model for hard tasks” is actually terrible advice

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