Fireship built the same game with Astra and Fable 5.1 — only one was fun
Fireship · youtube · 2026-09-10
Fireship published a hands-on comparison building the same game with AI coding tools Astra and Fable 5.1. With Astra now publicly available, the video tests whether it lives up to the hype — and his verdict is that only one of the two builds was actually fun. The video covers the real-world development experience and output quality of each tool.
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