After Days of Coding With Astra, One Dev Calls It Overhyped
Nevetsny · reddit · 2026-09-08
After several days coding with Astra, the author finds it overhyped: reasoning errors and constant looping, verbose and imprecise output that over-codes and over-injects, requiring constant reining in. The weakest point, they argue, is the lack of weighting — every response, audit finding, and critical issue is presented with equal weight regardless of importance. They note they followed OpenAI's own prompting guidance.
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