Dev finds astra a poor design-doc sparring partner but surprisingly good at implementation

lucasmeijer · x · 2026-09-15

lucasmeijer shares first-hand experience: astra was a poor sparring partner on his design doc, but its implementation so far is going much better than he hoped — a brief data point on current AI tools' reviewer-vs-executor capability asymmetry.

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