The bar for coding models: reliability, not vibes — Opus falls short, Astra spikey
vtabbott_ · x · 2026-09-16
Following up on his claim that Fable lets him drive a codebase in plain English, vtabbott defines the "critical point": competence plus reliability — no mistakes, no mess, accurate instruction parsing. By that bar, Opus doesn't quite make the cut and Astra is "VERY spikey." He asks others to share their experiences.
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