GPT-6 Astra designed a Codex hardware device from scratch in under a week

On November 3, 2026, OpenAI revealed that GPT-6 Astra designed an entire hardware device for the Codex coding agent in under a week: enclosure, circuit board, firmware, and interface. The demo measures a gap that is still wide between AI and real physical engineering, worth reading before you wire your design flows to a model.