Dev on astra: huge agency and output, but no better at novel decisions
generativist · x · 2026-09-15
A developer reports that astra does an incredible amount of work with impressive agency, yet shows no real improvement at decision-making under novelty — it goes further, but still in wrong directions. They add they keep switching back to sol for ML work.
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