AMD's AI director reports that Anthropic's Claude Code model has degraded in performance and effort quality following a recent update.

An AMD AI director publicly criticized Claude Code for becoming less capable and showing reduced effort after a recent update

The complaint suggests the model's performance has noticeably declined rather than improved

The observation comes from someone in a leadership position at AMD, lending credibility to the technical assessment

The issue highlights concerns about potential regressions in AI model quality following updates