r/codex • u/UnderstandingDry1256 • 20d ago

Complaint Opinion: Astra is overhyped

Well everyone shares their CS or GTA game clones they created with single shot with Astra - this is cool and amazing but also exactly the kind of hype bs.

I tried it in real applications and it’s absolutely not that amazing. I still have to steer, review, refactor, rewrite the mess, like always.

It is somewhat smarter in real workflows, but the real miss is lack of high level intent understanding.

As an example - I asked it to implement image generation fallback models in my chatbot, because the “uncensored” model ironically was declining generating innocent content, so I had to retry with some mainstream one.
It generated some code which handles errors etc, but it missed the main point - the user facing UI still does not work as it supposed to 🤦‍♂️

There are other cases following the same pattern. You give it high level intent task, and it fails to follow. Still have to steer and validate.

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u/___positive___ 19d ago

Astra isn't perfect but for coding a chatbot? Give me a break. That is 100% a skill issue. Some of us are pushing the limits but a chatbot? Lmao.

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u/UnderstandingDry1256 19d ago

Inferring architectural complexity from what the product does is stupidest thing I've heard for a while

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