Thought expirement. If astra max effort made one function at a time via a heavy description by you. Would it ever produce slop? Fresh context, 1000 lines of style and content guide you personally wrote. Per function no other code context massive guides and styles and it writes a bunch of AI slop unit tests on the side for this one function.

If the answer is yes then atleast you're consistent if no then the question is why can't you scale this until breaks? Then never move beyond that limit?

My argument is there's a "break even" point when the power of the AI is larger than the problem you give it to the point it doesn' slop. You then build at that chunk rate and only try to increase it with next gen model. I usually keep a few "screw it" ideas in my back pocket when a new model arrives to see what happens.

"Go rewrite this entire pipeline in rust" "Go train me a custom x model for y"

Fable is the first model that did not just crash and burn on one of these tasks. Astra still can't do the rust migration (goodbye tokens). But I assume eventually it will. Then I'll have to make up a new ridiculous level.

The model training one was literally an identical pipeline I made before AI and it was like a 6mo process. Fable did it better than me in 1 week (with me helping of course). My theory though is that its datascience is massively higher skill than other systems.

You need to find the chunkrate for your problem and style that works.