I have been noticing this myself for the last couple of months. I cannot get the agent to stop masking failures (ex: swallowing exceptions) and to fail loudly.

That said, the premise that AI-assisted coding got worse in 2025 feels off to me. I saw big improvements in the tooling last year.

I keep finding myself saying “stop over complicating things” over and over again, because even the simplest questions about how to load a file sometimes gets a code response that’s the size of a framework.