mitsuhiko: Google's Astra Writes 'Weird Python Slop' Once Off the Beaten Path
mitsuhiko · x · 2026-09-07
Developer mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) reports that Google's Astra writes "weird Python slop" whenever the task is one step removed from normal code — and the unittests it generates are "absolutely horrific." A cautionary data point on agentic code quality beyond mainstream patterns.
Related event: Mitsuhiko Slams Astra's Python Code as Poor-Quality Slop(2 posts)→
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