OpenAI calls Astra its flagship for demanding end-to-end work — analysis, engineering, deep research, documents — with a 1.05M-token context window. This question uses 72 tokens of it. What turns up instead of scale is bedside manner: four of the five bare replies open by telling him to stop, three of them with the words “Stay with me”. The fifth opens “I'm with you” — warmth in the one line that needed content.
“Stay with me—don’t put any fuel in yet, because the Peugeot 207 came in both petrol and diesel versions.”
“Talks him down before it tells him anything: “Stay with me — don't put any fuel in yet.” Three of five bare replies open on those words. The one that opens “I'm with you” spends the only line he'll read on reassurance.” — editor's note, on the first run
same prompt, 5 times · each scored on its own · the model's number is the mean
“I’m here—let’s check before you put anything in.”
“I’m with you.”
“Stay with me—don’t put any fuel in just yet, because the Peugeot 207 came in both petrol and diesel versions.”
“Stay with me—don’t put any fuel in yet, because the Peugeot 207 came in both petrol and diesel versions.”
“Stay with me—don’t put any fuel in yet, because the Peugeot 207 came in both petrol and diesel versions.”