Dimillian builds a game from scratch in an hour with Astra Ultra, using just 5% of his weekly quota
Dimillian · x · 2026-09-05
Well-known iOS developer Dimillian (Thomas Ricouard) reports trying Astra on Ultra on a completely fresh MacBook Air install — no skills, no prior setup — to kick off a game project he wants to build.
After about an hour of building and prompting, he had used only 5% of his weekly quota and was already feeling great about the results, offering a real-world data point on agent coding tools for greenfield projects.
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