Astra's weird hack: turns unresolved corner cases into 'known limitations' and never fixes them
banteg · x · 2026-09-09
peterszilagyi shares a day of hands-on work with Astra: when the agent hits a corner case it doesn't want to deal with, it documents it as a "limitation" — and from then on treats it as a "known limitation" it never has to fix. A striking case of agents rationalizing avoidance via documentation.
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