Unfortunately, even the API variant got RLHF'd pretty hard into being that dumb end-user assistant personality :(

But beside that, I feel like the app variant got worse the day they've had that wwdc-style release thing recently.

Previously it was a sparring partner that could actually keep up. But now it just doesn't.

Truly a shame. And nothing that could be fixed by local models any time soon, given that you need the size for the (cross-)domain knowledge.