I would have thought so too. But my n=1 has CC solving pretty much the same task today and about two weeks ago with drastically degraded results.

The background being that we scrapped working on a feature and then started again a sprint later.

In my cynicism I find it more likely that a massively unprofitable LLM company tries to reduce costs at any price than everyone else suffering from a collective delusion.

I agree with you. I too complain about this same phenomenon with my colleagues, and we always arrive at the same conclusion: it’s probably us just expecting more and more over time.