Dev compares Claude vs OpenAI's Astra: Claude fixes its own mistakes, Astra spins for days
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-24
- Developer @roycohen shares hands-on coding agent impressions: Claude "feels like you're getting stuff done," and even when it messes up, it can fix its own mistakes in about an hour.
- OpenAI's Astra, by contrast, felt unusable: it seems busy but makes no progress, moving fast at the cost of precision and burning literal days with nothing to show.
- The thread started from OpenAI researcher @willdepue's observation that OpenAI researchers may not realize how good Claude is because they lack access and time for hard technical projects.
(Note: "Astra" as an OpenAI agent codename is unverified, per the original posts.)
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