@bijanbowen Fun fact, you can get fable performance and at Haiku speed and prices if you set Fable as the orchestrator and spawn as many Haiku sub agents as fable can manage. This should be the way new models are tested
@bridgemindai I've reduced my spend and speedup my dev cycle using this formula Astra Max to diagnose and create a plan, Astra light to orchestrate a swarm of Deepseek 4.1 Flash agents, 12 hours of work are roughtly equivalent to 8% usage with that setup, working on a c++ app.
@DesignArena Its becoming incresingly clear that for agentic work you need Astra, for everyday coding needs DeepSeek is sufficient, I've been using it for a couple of days and have not missed Astra a bit on my C++ project.
@elshayib_ I've found that the best way to use it is under human supervision. It likes to go on tangents exploring and even coming up with unlikely extreme edge cases and spend hours trying to solve them. If you give it a direct, concrete task, it does it very well and very fast and cheap.