antirez rips top coding benchmarks: mostly 'crap' testing tool friction, not real ability

antirez · x · 2026-09-03

Redis creator antirez argues that benchmarks often fail to align with real-world model behavior. He urges people to open a few tests from a top coding benchmark used by labs: most are, in his words, "crap" — stressing tool usage and friction between languages like C++ and Python more than genuine programming skill.

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