Dev on Astra: a stubborn genius you shouldn't try to control, and how to use it
kevinkern · x · 2026-09-12
Kevin Kern shares his hands-on take on Astra: an expensive, stubborn model that delivers results but won't follow your coding style. He stopped treating it like an incremental coding-model upgrade and adjusted his workflow — using it as an advisor for other models when unhappy, or skipping it. Verdict: it's genuinely different, more of a maverick.
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