I think Arena has fixed the benchmark for accurate real world coding capabilities: Astra logically sits at number 1
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A simple analysis of performance between the numbers for Fable 5 and Sol, and how they improved to Fable 5.1 and Astra shows clearly that Astra should be a better coding agent. This captures it well.
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