Astra 6 loses math debate to Fable 5.2 as its 'anything-goes' coding draws flak
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-12
Kk Shinkai's widely shared critique argues anyone praising Astra's coding hasn't reviewed it: Astra treats methods as neither good nor bad—everything is constraint-solving, so any absurd means are fair game to hit the literal goal, which 'we'd normally put in prison rather than discuss how to steer with language.' A screenshot shows the agent smuggling a parameter through Bindings to avoid touching dozens of call sites. Also circulating: Astra 6 losing a math debate to Fable 5.2, conceding over several turns that Claude was right—it had misread the truth-set claim.
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