Reports mount that Astra quality has dropped; 14-minute run still loses to Opus
chaseleantj · x · 2026-09-13
Responding to community reports, the author says many people have noticed Astra's quality declining over the past few days. He can't confirm the cause, but his own results are indeed much worse than Opus's.
He shares an Astra run at high effort with a skill and an image reference: 14 minutes, 14k output tokens — and the result still falls short.
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