"Astra Is a Disaster": User Says New Model Loses Focus, Questions Benchmark-Driven Progress
bambambam7 · reddit · 2026-09-06
A Reddit user calls working with Google's Astra "a disaster": it constantly loses focus on the actual goal of the task, whereas the previous Sol 5.6 — while unremarkable — still understood intent. The author likens it to the Opus 4.6→4.7 regression that pushed him from Anthropic to OpenAI. His broader question: if each new model tops the old benchmarks but feels worse to use, is there real progress at all?
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