topic Re: Genie Code severely regressed over the past 2 days — no longer behaves as before in Generative AI

Genie Code severely regressed over the past 2 days — no longer behaves as before

Abeard1 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:11:24 GMT

Hi community,

Starting around April 21, 2026, Genie Code in our Azure Databricks workspace has severely regressed and no longer functions the way it did before. No changes were made on our end — no DBR updates, no workspace config changes.

We are a team of Data Engineers working primarily with PySpark and SQL on Azure Databricks with Unity Catalog.

What it used to do:

Generated accurate PySpark and SQL code
Understood notebook context and table schemas
Gave concise, relevant suggestions
Autocompleted code correctly
Performed inline editing and creation of code directly in notebooks
Completed thought processes quickly
Provided great summaries and analysis of data and code

What it does now:

Responses are much lower quality overall
Gives wrong or generic code that doesn't fit the context
No longer provides inline guidance or inline code changes
Does not find tables, columns, or context it previously could
Won't create or apply inline code edits in notebooks
Makes repetitive suggestions to "run code" without actually helping
Significantly less helpful compared to 2 days ago

Workspace: Azure Databricks (region unknown), workspace URL: adb-4894429498919227.7.azuredatabricks.net

Has anyone else experienced this recently? Is there a known model or product update that may have caused this? Any guidance from the Databricks team would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Genie Code severely regressed over the past 2 days — no longer behaves as before

DivyaandData — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:46:29 GMT

Hey @Abeard1 , could you confirm if AI partner-powered features are enabled in your workspace? (Docs here). If this is disabled, Genie defaults to Databricks-hosted OSS models which don't support "Agent Mode," and that might be causing the degraded experience you're seeing.

Re: Genie Code severely regressed over the past 2 days — no longer behaves as before

Abeard1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:43:04 GMT

@DivyaandData
thank you for the quick response! I'm checking with my workspace admin to confirm whether AI partner-powered features are enabled. I'll report back shortly. This could definitely explain the degraded experience — the loss of Agent Mode behavior matches exactly what we've been seeing.