Yacine on Astra: really smart model, but everything it produces is absolute slop
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-21
Developer Yacine's one-liner review of Astra: "really smart but all of the things it produces is absolute slop" — a pithy take on the gap between the model's intelligence and its output quality.
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