Dev compares Astra vs ChatGPT coding style: 'a programmer from 1980' vs clean minimal
cnakazawa · x · 2026-09-10
cnakazawa shared his experience coding a game framework with AI assistants on the fate repo (nkzw-tech, 1.1k stars):
- ChatGPT followed the in-repo code style well and never wrote comments — "code was beautiful."
- Astra, by contrast, has its own distinctive style, "like a programmer from 1980": very terse code but comments everywhere.
- He links a cleanup commit and a large persistence-APIs commit (57 files, +7,719 lines) as examples of the models' output to compare.
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