for me it got dramatically worse. it cant read whole files of concatenated code anymore. seems like its attention is much smaller. doing lots of piecemeal behind-the-scenes cmd line stuff now instead of just seeming to "understand" everything in one go. somewhat catastrophic for me. so bad that i was surprised to discover that chatgpt 5 is still worse
(relevant self promotion) i wrote a cli tool called slupe that lets web based llm dictate fs changes to your computer to make it easier to do ai coding from web llms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776250