Comment by zeven7
4 hours ago
I agree somewhat with the way the agents behave but feel the opposite reaction. With Fable, I get exhausted because it's always dumping out paragraphs of text that explain one approach but have some secret gotcha thrown out in the last two sentences. Then I have to pause and consider the caveat and if it matters and it happens every single time Fable responds and that constantly needing to make a decision that could radically change the approach gives me decision fatigue. I much prefer how much more decisive Astra can be.
I'm the opposite. Every time I've let Sol/Astra be decisive, I ended up with an overengineered mess.
I much prefer getting alerted when there's more than 1 approach to the problem and it's discovered mid-implementation.
I don't want to do the grunt work of writing code, but I do want to know the architecture and be responsible for the decisions.
Fable is also very good at pushing back when I propose something that will cost me. E.g. I'm working on a configuration layer above nix to manage my homelab fleet declaratively, and I tend to get into "config as new language", where Fable just goes - let's not do that.
I haven't run into the verbosity issue since they added the "Concise" outputStyle, and Fable 5.1 has been even better about not outputting word slops.