Issue 2026-09-16 · Voices
Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW
We rolled out GPT-6 Astra to every Databricks engineer today. It beats Claude Opus 5 on the hardest, long-horizon tasks and increased our coding spend by 60%. I think it’s the strongest model. Expensive. But hopefully worth it. [引用 @pwendell]: Today we rolled out Astra to every engineer at Databricks (N=~3500). Some notes that may be helpful to others: 1. Astra unambiguously out performs our previous highest-end models (Opus 5, Sol 5.6) on highly complex tasks, especially those related to high level system design or long range horizontal tasks. 2. Engineers given Astra increased overall coding spend by around 60% compared to baseline…
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