AI storage meme says the “marketing answer” is 5.3, but the real benchmark is still undefined
JoshuaJBouw · x · 2026-07-27
The image jokes about an AI system whose “marketing answer” is just 5.3, while the engineering answer is still undefined.
It says the current Weissman score combines compression ratio with normalized compression time and measures about 1.89:1 from whole-file dedup on agent state, but it still lacks a benchmark for ingest throughput against a reference compressor. The punchline is that once lazy VFS performance, versioned dedup, and ingest throughput are measured properly, the number can be calculated more honestly. Then it adds that if Astrid also brings random-access reconstruction, provenance, rollback, and cross-capsule dedup, the only sensible response is: “Fuck it.”
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