@geniusvczh: Finally figured out where all the complaints about astra come from. Today I opened a blank repo and asked it to do a C+…

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Summary

The author identifies that complaints about astra arise from its lack of accumulated context for good code generation, and shows improvement by importing GacUI's context into a new repository.

Finally figured out where all the complaints about astra come from. Today I opened a blank repo and asked it to do a C++ project, and out came a pile of shit. astra isn't incapable of writing good code; it just needs its own values—that is, what’s good/bad/right/wrong—accumulated into the context. That’s also what GacUI has been doing over the past year. So I directly imported GacUI’s context into the new repo, and the magic brush Ma Liang is back

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