Mixed
My experience with Astra (I use it at home writing Go and C) for coding has been fantastic
trentnix on Hacker News
In the thread “GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price”, replying to this comment
Helped: Astra for writing Go and C at home.
Got in the way: Opus 5.5 prone to word vomit and not demonstrably better.
That's not been my experience. My experience with Astra (I use it at home writing Go and C) for coding has been fantastic. Opus 5.5 (I use it for work writing C#) seems faster than Opus 5, but it doesn't seem demonstrably better to my eyes and is still prone to word vomit.