Astra is latin for "stars", so basically the Galaxy (or Universe as a whole) which is categorically bigger than Sol, the sun, a single star.
The naming makes perfect sense to me, the sorting algorithm is size, both for the names and for the models themselves. Smaller things represent smaller models, and vice versa.
> the Galaxy (or Universe as a whole) which is categorically bigger than Sol, the sun, a single star.
I would need to be a complete moron to argue with this. Humor me, however. My Latin skills end at remembering "Romani Ite Domum" and English is not my first language.
My layman reading of the names: there is one Terra, one Luna and one Sol => "Astra" is singular.
Now that I googled it, I understand that "Astra" literally means the "Stars" category. I would not have thought that they called a single star "Astrum". On the other hand, I am not sure if it means "Galaxy" in modern sense, but we're entering Roman Astronomy territory, where I am even less knowledgeable than in the language.
Sol is a star, so having a dedicated Stars category on the naming scale makes less sense. Treating Astra as Stars set without Sol, the "distance from observer" argument still kind of makes sense.
Yeah, this was my initial thought as well... I guess they didn't ask anyone before choosing the new naming scheme. But that isn't particularly surprising.
Only if it has a goatee, which is how we know Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man and
Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange were only the heroes of their own narratives, and nobody else's.
I think that technical people tend to underestimate the importance of convenience. If it were up to hacker news, everyone would be on Linux, everyone would assemble their own laptop and nobody would own an iPhone.
Even for technical problems sometimes having something fast and convenient that doesn't require a ton of fine tuning opens up a lot of doors. Those door might've easily been openable previously with a few days of effort. But the difference between a few days and something that you can set up with a quick account and a prompt is massive
Yeah, it's just exhausting to read that even if the message might have been interesting.
A paragraph below she uses it twice in a row:
"But somewhere in that process I noticed the real gap wasn’t in my agent’s behavior — it was in mine. So the focus of this article isn’t really about the skills I wrote. It’s about the ones I had to develop in myself to keep up with the ones I was developing with the agent"
Agreed, I've had humans hallucinate stuff more often than Agents so far in support calls. Many of the customer support agents are just incentives to get you off the phone as fast as possible, and they'll absolutely make stuff up to get you to give up on your quest.
Lol, you should just try to use something you're not familiar with in production. Let's just stop all discussion around things and just let people try everything for themselves. That't the best way for humans to learn. Writing, reading and discussion are so blase'
I've always been a believer in the "post honey-moon new model phase" being a thing, but if you look at their analysis of how often the postEdit hooks fire + how Anthropic has started obfuscating thinking blocks, it seems fishy and not just vibes
I was in this camp as well until recently, in the last 2-3 weeks I've been seeing problems that I wasn't seeing before, largely in line with the issues highlighted in the ticket (ownership dodging, hacky fixes, not finishing a task).
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