Dev: Astra is a downgrade from Sol unless you brute-force with massive parallelism
mertdumenci · x · 2026-09-12
Developer mertdumenci argues Astra is a downgrade from its predecessor Sol — except when you can run half a trillion instances in parallel to brute-force a counterexample in numerical search. He notes the contrast between X discourse (depressing) and actually using the model (frustrating): 'we have a long way to go.'
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