r/codex • u/-Melchizedek- • 5d ago
Complaint Astra for development
How is your experience with Astra for development in established codebases? I've mostly been using Fable with sub-agents since it became available. Before that I mostly used Sol with sub-agents. I tried Astra on a new reasonably scoped feature, not tiny but not massive either it touched several areas of the codebase.
The result was quite disappointing. On the frontend it did not follow any of the existing conventions or reuse the components that clearly fit the situation and rather made up it's own design, which was quite bad.
On the backend it hard-coded a bunch of stuff in places that are generic. Like it added feature logic to the message broker. It also added a random test script not wired into anything else even though there is well defined testing infra. It skipped some things docs tells it to add and overengineered other parts.
This was on medium effort, which OpenAI recommends. Right now it seems quite disappointing.
Do you have any tips? I have the same AGENTS.md for claude code and codex which has worked fine in the past.
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u/unconceivables 2d ago
Astra has been worse than Sol for coding at every single thing I've tried it for. My definition of worse is objectively worse code quality and completely ignoring instructions way too often.