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Are IA coding assistants making the code faster to write, but slower and more expensive to maintain? A data scientist notes stagnation or even a deterioration in their performanceFor two years, the coding assistants doped with artificial intelligence have become quasi-permanent companions for many developers. Completing code, generating functions, automatic refactoring, explaining inherited code bases: the promise was simple...
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TV Tech Industry NewsNewer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways
In recent months, I’ve noticed a troubling trend with AI coding assistants. After two years of steady improvements, over the course of 2025, most of the core models reached a quality plateau, and more recently, seem to be in decline. A task that might have taken five hours assisted by AI, and perhaps ten hours without it, is now more commonly taking seven or eight hours, or even longer. It’s reached the point where I am sometimes going back and …
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