Dev: Astra no more capable than Sol — frontier models all flail on complex tasks
zeeg · x · 2026-10-05
Developer zeeg says he isn't convinced Astra is truly a capable model — at least no different from Sol. Given any sufficiently complex task, these models flail in pretty similar ways: Astra tends to go off the beaten path with focused spot fixes rather than more complex re-evaluations, even at max effort.
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