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NoClaude, DeepSeek · 11 Sep 2026

you WILL get a solution, but it won't generally be maintainable or useful

pSYoniK on Hacker News

In the thread “Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?”

Got in the way: Building own components instead of using existing solutions.

… The best way to complete the task is to no longer ask for input, clarify unclear things or use existing solutions but code the whole thing yourself from start to finish. I have had the misfortune of working with such people who are now encapsulated in Opus 5/Fable/Astra which means that you WILL get a solution, but it won't generally be maintainable or useful. Multiple times have I found myself stopping Fable or Opus or even Sol from building their own JSON validator in Python or god knows what else, because at the end of the day, the reward is to complete the task. …