Yam Peleg, Israeli AI researcher and open-source LLM trainer, says every coding agent feels noticeably dumber right now as developers report performance declines
AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "Yam Peleg, Israeli AI researcher, reports that every coding agent feels noticeably dumber"
A founder questions if agents declined or users adapted.
Users reject any notion that AI coding agents are improving, instead agreeing with reports that the agents feel noticeably dumber.
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either i got smarter or the agents got dumber not sure which one
@Yampeleg it's starting to get into summer so they are in vacation mode
@Yampeleg Are we maybe getting smarter?
@Yampeleg a lot of it is corpus rot. generated docs, vendored junk, and giant transcripts make the same model look worse week to week.
@Yampeleg Maybe you're just smarter today
@Yampeleg Make the system work even when the agent is dumb. Deterministic gates don't get dumber.
@Yampeleg The agents are on strike
@vikhyatk it's an arms race in recursive self improvement. surprised how well the old bio brain is holding up
@Yampeleg They probably using plenty of threads monitoring their semi stocks... 🥲
@Yampeleg maybe just a marketing reset
@Yampeleg It generally happens before a new release.
@maishsk @Yampeleg Obviously, no
@Yampeleg Anthropic seems genuinely compute-constrained, but not OpenAI. I think I can infer that OpenAI thinks matching Anthropic's quality or slightly better is good enough, shifting the rest of the compute to training