mitsuhiko: Astra writes 'weird Python slop' with horrific unit tests on generic tasks
sull · x · 2026-09-07
Developer mitsuhiko criticizes GPT-6 Astra's coding: on tasks that are "one step removed" from normal code, it writes weird Python slop, and the unit tests it generates are "absolutely horrific." A notable behavior observation about the model's generalization quirks.
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