"Astra was incredible yesterday, terrible today": user reports overnight quality drop
HairyHobNob · reddit · 2026-09-29
A Reddit user reports Astra's quality swinging wildly overnight: it one-shot a tricky Home Assistant speaker sync fix (6ms accuracy) in 30 minutes one day, then spent the entire next day going in circles on making the fix permanent, failing on unrelated tasks too. After three weeks of stellar performance, the model suddenly showed tunnel vision and repetitive loops, even with subagents. The experience was frustrating enough that the user plans to switch to Claude Max when their ChatGPT subscription ends — fueling speculation about silent server-side downgrades.
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