Redditor Rants: Astra Codes 'Like a Drunk Junior Dev' After Agreed Refactor
jjw_kbh · reddit · 2026-09-21
A Redditor vented about Astra's coding behavior: after a three-turn discussion where both sides agreed on how to refactor three classes, the model went ahead and did its own thing. The author compared it to "a junior dev who showed up to work still drunk from a Saturday bender," highlighting a common agent failure mode of ignoring agreed-upon plans during execution.
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