Benchmark fail: 'sol-advisor' v1 was 3x slower and 7x more costly than native
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-08-16
An engineering retrospective on the 'sol-advisor' project (2k stars in 2 weeks). Initial benchmarks showed v1 performed worse than using GPT-5.6 Sol directly, with lower quality (86.7% vs 93.3% pass@1), 7x higher token usage, and 3x longer latency. The issue was the orchestration contract forcing subagent lanes unnecessarily. The author fixed it with a new pattern that assesses task risk to select the appropriate lane, yielding much better results.
Related event: sol-advisor's Optimized Update Runs 3x Slower Than Native GPT-5.6 Sol(2 posts)→
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