> they will only get better.

Then came the new Claude update, which many people say is worse. Even Anthropic says it got worse.[1] HN discussion back on April 15th: [2]

Some of this is a pricing issue. Turning "default reasoning effort" down from "high" to "medium" was a form of shrinkflation. Maybe this technology is hitting a price/performance wall.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778035