GPT-6 Astra: An Elephant Memory for AI Work
An AI agent can remember the answer and still forget the work that made the answer correct. Picture a long debugging session. The agent reads the code, finds a failing test, and changes a function. Then it learns an important constraint: the public API cannot change. A few messages later, the context is full. The work continues, but the reason behind that constraint has faded into a compressed summary. The agent proposes a clean-looking fix that quietly brings the old problem back. That is not a dramatic failure. It is a familiar one. And it is exactly why the old expression “has a memory like an elephant” feels useful here. The point is not that an AI should remember every character it has ever seen. The point is that it should not lose the decisions that made the work correct. On September 3, 2026, OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Astra . Its most interesting practical change in Co...