Early Astra user: great model underneath, but zero proactivity that's 'a system prompt fix away'
oyacaro · x · 2026-09-09
An early user of Google's Astra reports it doesn't lead conversations, read between the lines, or act proactively, making it feel like hand-holding. They call it a system-prompt-level problem and say the underlying model otherwise seems great.
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