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triyambakamyesterday at 8:47 PM1 replyview on HN

What have you noticed about Astra? I haven't used Claude models lately so I can't compare but it seems fine compared to 5.6 Sol


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extryesterday at 8:52 PM

- It doesn't write great code.

- Occasionally has strange tics around asking for permission for obvious next-steps, implied actions, etc.

- It's very expensive, both in terms of tokens and % usage on subscription plans.

- Relatedly, effort level is unintuitive. Sometimes it seems like higher effort levels are actually cheaper due to not under-thinking and needing to correct work. But other times they are overkill and send the model into rabbitholes.

That said, it's fantastic as a code-reviewer or "hunter seeker". It's better at finding bugs than Fable and "Get this well articulated task done single-mindedly" is an Astra-shaped task.

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