Mason Smoot, McDonald's USA's post, curated on eChai

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McDonald's and IBM began working on automated order taking in 2021 and had it in more than a hundred restaurants. Through 2023 and 2024 clips circulated of it adding hundreds of chicken nuggets to an order, putting bacon on ice cream and refusing to stop. The memo quoted above went to franchisees in June 2024 and the technology came out by the end of July. McDonald's has not abandoned the idea and said it would look for a broader voice ordering solution. Worth reading next to the Taco Bell case, a year later and at five times the scale, which reached the same conclusion by a different route.

Mason Smoot, McDonald's USA

After a thoughtful review, McDonald's has decided to end our current partnership with IBM on AOT and the technology will be shut off in all restaurants currently testing it no later than July 26, 2024.

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Vaibhav Srivastav is at OpenAI, and was at Hugging Face before that, so this is written from inside the team that shipped the model. The five lines in the middle are the part to keep: what to change in your own prompts and AGENTS.md now that Astra follows instructions more closely than the model before it.

Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav 14h

GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise and Business Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex. It’s also live in the API.

It's a phenomenal model and I love every second working with it!

Astra follows instructions more closely, so revisit your prompts and skills:

> Make “can you…” mean “do it”: finish authorised work and prepare a reviewable result before seeking approval.

> Audit AGENTS.md and skills. Ask it to identify the exact file and rule blocking progress. Prioritise your request over skill guidelines.

> Specify short paragraphs, plain language and phrases to avoid.

> Ask for subagents on independent work when it improves speed or quality.

> Run relevant checks. Repeat or expand only for changes, failures or unresolved concerns.

To push it to it's limits, I gave it a prompt to build a real-scale video fly through of nürburguring track in blender and it did not disappoint!

Enjoy! ✨
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Miguel Ángel is a product engineer at HeyGen, and HyperFrames is HeyGen's own product, so this is the model being used on the thing he builds all day.

Miguel Ángel 15h

Astra is too good making @HyperFrames_ videos!
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Shikhar 15h

Astra is so cracked at Blender.

You can literally one-shot game assets with it.

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