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The author of `aider` - an OSS GPT-powered coding assistant - is on HN, and says[0] he has benchmarks showing gradual decline in quality of GPT-4-Turbo, especially wrt. "lazy coding" - i.e. actually completing a coding request, vs. peppering it with " ... write this yourself ... " comments.

That on top of my own experiences, and heaps of anecdotes over the last year.

> How would they honestly be getting worse?

The models behind GPT-4 (which is rumored to be a mixture model)? Tuning, RLHF (which has long been demonstrated to dumb the model down). The GPT-4, as in the thing that produces responses you get through API? Caching, load-balancing, whatever other tricks they do to keep the costs down and availability up, to cope with the growth of the number of requests.

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