Developer reports Astra feels "lobotomized" since Saturday, burning weekly quota on off-spec tasks
almmaasoglu · x · 2026-09-21
A developer reports that Astra has felt noticeably degraded since Saturday: it now spends the entire weekly usage limit on tasks the user never asked for and that weren't in the spec. Calling the behavior "lowk lobotomized," the author urges that these silent degradation issues be solved for good this year — another case of users detecting server-side model downgrades.
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