Yacine: Astra is 'ridiculously good' at perf optimization — may demote it to a subagent
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-23
Following up on his earlier complaint, yacineMTB says he might use Astra as a subagent for general coding, but praises that it is 'ridiculously good' at performance optimization. A signal that coding agents have diverging strengths worth orchestrating by task type.
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