Early Astra agent test: excellent planning and updates, no guarantee of actual results
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-09-06
A developer tasked Google's Astra with building a deterministic function that scores news headlines for grammar and readability, using thousands of headlines generated by GPT, Claude and his own finetuned models. His verdict: Astra's planning looks excellent — steady progress updates, goal focus, and productive tangents — but the agent may still fail to actually solve the problem, highlighting the gap between convincing execution and real delivery.
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