Astra is also useless and completely ignoring instructions at random intervals.

We are being A/B tested on and there is nothing you can do about it.

We are being A/B tested on and there is nothing you can do about it.

Oh, yes there is. DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on max thinking can simply be dropped into Claude Code. Close your eyes as the chain-of-thought traffic scrolls by and you can easily fool yourself into thinking you're still running Opus, in terms of both cognition and throughput.

To be fair, matching Opus's throughput costs about as much as a new car, but cars suck nowadays and you didn't want a new one anyway, right...? Failing that, rent a cloud server, one that you control.