AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
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Re: AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
#2Lol OAI and AMD did a deal together so whatever.
In reality as they scale up, the models lose nuance and become noisier. The boosters do not want to admit this.
We need highly-specialised models/interfaces. Not one thing and trying to force-fit it.
Re: AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
#3Boris from the Claude Code team explained this on HN 2 days ago
Re: AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
#4Ok, I thought I was going insane. The last two larger coding tasks I gave Claude Code it left about 35% of my request completely undone or done sloppily.
I because of this, the next task I gave it on the larger side, I ran its work through Codex which identified 7 glaring unfinished parts of the task.
The trend was starting the part of the task but then leaving a "skeleton" of what I has requested without any of the actual working parts.
The way I would describe it is a kid cramming his 3 month project into a Sunday evening for Monday's due date.
Re: AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
#5Boris from the Claude Code team explained this on HN 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442
And as the person who raised the issue said
> The frustrating part is that it's not a workflow _or_ model issue, but a silently-introduced limitation of the subscription plan. They switched thinking to be variable by load, redacted the thinking so no one could notice, and then have been running it at ~1/10th the thinking depth nearly 24/7 for a month. That's with max effort on, adaptive thinking disabled, high max thinking tokens, etc etc.
So Boris' explanation isn't really an explanation.
Re: AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
#6i run claude code pretty heavily for overnight sessions and yeah the inconsistency b/w runs is noticeable. same prompt, same codebase, wildly different quality depending on the day. the frustrating part is when it half-finishes something and you come back to a mess you now have to untangle. still the most capable coding agent i've used but the variance is real.
Re: AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
#7Lol OAI and AMD did a deal together so whatever. In reality as they scale up, the models lose nuance and become noisier. The boosters do not want to admit this. We need highly-specialised models/interfaces. Not one thing and trying to force-fit it.
> Not one thing and trying to force-fit it.
Re: AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
#8I felt it had been enshittified 1-2 weeks back, not in Feb. But it's very subjective.
Re: AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
#9Boris from the Claude Code team explained this on HN 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442
And as the person who raised the issue said > The frustrating part is that it's not a workflow _or_ model issue, but a silently-introduced limitation of the subscription plan. They switched thinking to be variable by load, redacted the thinking so no one could notice, and then have been running it at ~1/10th the thinking depth nearly 24/7 for a month. That's with max effort on, adaptive thinking disabled, high max th…
> ~1/10th the thinking depth
While simultaneously drastically reducing the amount of work you can get done even at $200 a month. I've cancelled my subscription, it's not worth it anymore.
Re: AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
#10Ok, I thought I was going insane. The last two larger coding tasks I gave Claude Code it left about 35% of my request completely undone or done sloppily. I because of this, the next task I gave it on the larger side, I ran its work through Codex which identified 7 glaring unfinished parts of the task. The trend was starting the part of the task but then leaving a "skeleton" of what I has requested without any of the…
Today Claude asked if I "wanted to leave this until tomorrow" as it was a "big rework", then stopped, requiring me to tell it to continue multiple times - that seemed kinda weird to me, it doesn't have the context of time of working day or similar (I'd only just started for one).
I have no idea what link it made to ask that, what in its training data or prompts, but it's very much "not a useful result".
I don't remember seeing anything similar, but have only been using Claude on and off for 6 months or so.