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More and more people are finding that you can’t really let LLMs loose on any significant amount of code.

It’s fine for simple things, but when things get complicated (or even just non-obvious) it’ll grind and grind and continue trying stuff and producing code until it creates a huge christmas tree with thousands of lines that are entirely wrong

And those are the kind of solutions that juniors happily commit into production for you, saying: “Look it works!”

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra-why/

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