Researcher _xjdr: not liking astra, may go back to 5.6, eyeing Opus 5.5 and dsv4.1 flash
_xjdr · x · 2026-09-24
xjdr, a well-known inference-optimization researcher, posted that he doesn't think he likes astra, was a big fan of 5.6 and might go back to it. He is also curious about trying Claude Opus 5.5 after a long time away from Claude, and plans to use dsv4.1 flash for more tasks. A short but first-hand data point on frontier model preferences from an industry insider.
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