You're using GPT-6 Astra WRONG

Greg Isenberg (0:00)

GPT-6 Astra is here, and I got good news for you. By the end of this episode, you're gonna understand what are the different startup ideas, what are the different use cases, how do you use it to be more productive, how do you use it to save money, to make money, everything all in here. I'm gonna show you how you can use it with hardware to create hardware businesses. And this is an episode not just focused around cool 3D demos. This is for people who wanna make money to be more productive with AI, and how you can use it specifically with Asha. What are the different prompts? How to think about it? I brought on my friend, Ras Mic, who's just amazing at clearly explaining all this sorts of stuff. So enjoy the episode. Like, comment and subscribe for more of this in your feed. And I can't wait to see you at the end.

Ras Mic, on the pod, this isn't your average GPT-6 Astra review, is it?

Ras Mic (0:59)

No, we don't have no games. We don't have any trade demos. We don't have... There's some weird ones, right? Some weird 3D ones.

Although those things are cool, they're not really useful to myself, you and Greg. So we're actually going to talk about some useful, cool stuff. Particularly, we're going to get you guys to dream big with hardware.

Greg Isenberg (1:20)

Yeah, exactly. So by the end of this episode, what I hope you take away is getting your creative juices flowing around really some ideas around how you can build a business using GPT-6 Astra and actually how you can have a more productive code base, have better products. So by the end of this, you're not going to get some glitzy cool video game thing, but you're actually going to have, okay, here's what I can actually create today.

Ras Mic (1:50)

Yep, that's what we're going to do and we'll just get started. So a couple of things about the model first and foremost, this is OpenAI's most expensive model. It's on par with Fable in terms of pricing. But if you have a coding subscription, very subsidized and not only that, it's also very efficient, meaning it doesn't take as many steps to complete a task. So even though, yes, the price is high, you're still getting a good bang for intelligence. If you have an existing app or web app, mobile app, something that you've worked on software, I highly encourage you to do two things. Tell the agent, tell your codex agent, I want to run a performance update. My pages aren't as fast as they need to be. My API calls aren't as fast as they need to be. Please review my entire app and suggest a performance update. I did that for one of my apps, and speeds went from 800 milliseconds to literally 20 to 30 milliseconds, right? That's an insane increase in speed. Highly suggest you do that. Number two, something we couldn't do with Fable is a security audit. I was telling Greg this, I have some sort of payments startup, if you will, in the background for a specific niche, and I had a couple of people using it. I ran the security audit, and Astra was basically like, my boy, you would have been cooked if I didn't read all this.

Run a security audit if you have an app that people are actually using.

In terms of UI, I could just show some examples. This is one that it designed, really nice.

The reason it was nice was because I gave it a reference image, and the reference image, if I have it, is the old Microsoft XP network icon. I really like the OT network icon.

Greg Isenberg (3:29)

Very swaggy.

Ras Mic (3:30)

For anyone over 30, you remember this.

I gave it that, I'm like, use this as a reference image, and yeah, it looks pretty nice. Without a reference image, it kind of does too much, right? So do what you will with that. Number four, computer use. The agent, Codex, Astra, insane with using your computer, insane with doing tasks for you in the background, using your local machine, highly encourage you to do that. But what Greg wanted me to talk about...

Greg Isenberg (4:00)

Wait, before you get into this, before you get into this, I want to share some things of my own, of my own that I think you should use Astra for. So let me share my screen real quick.

Ras Mic (4:13)

Please.

Greg Isenberg (4:14)

So this, I tweeted this, Greg Brockman retweeted it and he said it was good. So if it's good enough for Greg, Brockman... It's good enough for all of us. It's good enough for all of us. So I just wrote, here's some nine cool Astra prompts we're trying. One is the bill renegotiator. Go through my internet, phone, software bills, jump into each provider's chat support and negotiate them down or cancel what I'm not using.