“AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse” is an intriguing article on IEEE Spectrum. According to the author (Jamie Twiss, CEO of Carrington Labs), the quality of the AI Coding assistants is declining contrary to what it may look at first sight.

Indeed, the author  noticed that some of the most recent AI models produce, more often than previous models, code which runs but which fails to perform as intended, even when given wrong instructions which cannot lead to a running code. In the opinion of the author, this can be due to the quality of the large volumes of training data needed by the latest models, and on the direct interaction of the AI Assistants with the users, which can “push” the AI models to produce code which runs.