VulcanBench(@VulcanBench):Seeing a high volume of posts on X about Astra being nerfed. Putting together a plan to test this with VulcanBench to move from anecdotal evidence to a more data-driven approach. Since I benchmarked it launch week, I do have data to compare how it performed at launch vs. now. But VulcanBench only looks at coding, not things like 3d rendering, game design, etc. and a lot of the nerf reports seemed to be focused on this so I might be somewhat limited. Still, worth seeing if we can notice any kind of difference. Let's let the data do the talking and answer the question: is Astra really nerfed?

2026.09.12 00:33

Seeing a high volume of posts on X about Astra being nerfed. Putting together a plan to test this with VulcanBench to move from anecdotal evidence to a more data-driven approach. Since I benchmarked it launch week, I do have data to compare how it performed at launch vs. now. But VulcanBench only looks at coding, not things like 3d rendering, game design, etc. and a lot of the nerf reports seemed to be focused on this so I might be somewhat limited. Still, worth seeing if we can notice any kind of difference. Let's let the data do the talking and answer the question: is Astra really nerfed?