SMRTR ProgrammingApr 8, 2026Hacker News

AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update

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AMD's AI director Stella Laurenzo filed a GitHub issue claiming Claude Code's performance has degraded since March. Her team analyzed 6,852 sessions and found increased violations indicating "laziness," reduced code reading before changes, and more file rewrites versus targeted edits. The decline coincides with thinking content redaction implementation in version 2.1.69.

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