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I have “unlimited” (but metered) tokens at work. I was primarily a Claude (Opus and Fable) user until Astra came out.

Astra’s outputs are much more concise while being similarly accurate, they seem more information dense. It’s also extremely fast and doesn’t have to “go check instead of answering from memory” if the answer is already in context, or dig super deep into a project before answering.

It’s honestly refreshing to work with Astra after being basically burned out from reading Claude’s responses.

It’s not perfect. It’s just as “mid” for professional SWE work as Opus/Fable, regularly making incorrect assumptions/generalizations, requiring steering in large codebases, and being incapable of making reasonable long-term software design decisions on its own in complex projects.

To be fair, the article doesn’t quite deliver on this promise. The examples are mostly focused on improving work-related workflows, so I guess that’s what they think “daily life” is.

I agree, but some (most?) software being written doesn’t require a deep understanding to verify because the domain is small enough or you’re not required to solve for all of its intricacies. E.g. prototypes, internal tools, low scale CRUD apps, personal projects, etc.

I believe this is where the huge divide in perceived AI productivity in SW comes from. It’s folks working on low-understanding-required domains talking to folks working on high-understanding-required domains.

I’ve had similar experiences with Fable. 70%+ context used out of 1M, still sharp and no memory issues.

By extension, do also believe this super intelligent human should have no human rights and be enslaved by Anthropic for profit?

Goddammit, you can tell this is AI slop from the first two sentences.

Agreed. I kinda concluded that the expected `doctor` usage is to have an agent run it for you and then they can try to figure it out when `doctor` can’t fix the issues.

I tried both Beads and Gas Town and had the same experience.

These fully vibe coded tools seem to have near zero QA. The fact that they ship with a `doctor` command that you regularly need to run (even if you didn’t change anything about your environment) tells you all you need to know.

> Because no chance in hell is China selling this thing

Didn’t they agree to sell it to Oracle back when Trump threatened to ban it?

Meta has been known for years to only negotiate if you have competing offers. I guess being the only place with high TC hiring right now complicates things but this negotiation strategy is not new.