alt Hacker NewsAstra when it hit the ground felt like “A Fable monent”: it was so good and concise and just was done with whatever task in a short time, where opus and fable sometimes can take forever. I think it lasted a week or two until it started to deteriorate to where we are now. Coincided nicely with the stopping of codex20 subscriptions etc.
Sol/Astra are sweet but they also have pretty much no discipline or executive function, which is where Opus 5.5 comes in, and I've not seen that capability in it nerfed too bad in my experience.