I’ve asked Astra to build me an app for a prototype I created quickly using Sonnet.

It’s been 2 days and it made no real progress on the actual app. It created docs, scripts, workflows, and it’s doing a bunch of reviewing on every PR.

I told it that I just need an MVP.

I’m pretty sure an average senior engineer would have finished that task much quicker, and guaranteed with more readable, higher-quality code. Meanwhile, I think I’ve easily crossed 100k tokens so far on nothing.

Funny world we’re living in that this is “SOTA” and “AGI”.

I’m genuinely curious what these OAI and A/ engineers are working on that they praise these models so much. I did not see any improvement since Opus 4.5.

Also, I’m really unimpressed by any “one shot” demo that’s out there in the wild. It means nothing for serious software engineering.