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Astra is capable but too expensive
After a few days with Astra, some positive and negative remarks Unfortunately, I can't use it as my daily driver because of the cost. Not surprising, since it's priced similarly as Fable It just eats away at my plan too quickly, and it's not as better or faster to justify me 3-4xing what I pay OpenAI - Better at writing prose, less slop. Overall more concise - Better at math than Sol, comparable to Fable - Sometimes more brainless than Sol. It forgets to execute parts of plans - More ambitious when it comes to refactoring/changing parts of the codebase. Sometimes deletes whole features. But this might just be my prompting/workflows - Not sure if it is better at Fable in UI/web dev. It is probably better in 3d modeling, but I feel like it might be slightly worse than Fable in 2d design, from the last few days of use. But OAI definitely is catching up there, since that was their weakness since Codex came out So it is a good model, but it won't become my daily driver or the average dev, due to the cost It will remain the planner/designer/debugger model for me, for tough cases or parts of the code which needs more diligence