Engineers Can't Even Finish Benchmarking One Model Before the Next Ships
renishh_23 · reddit · 2026-09-23
An engineer vents about the accelerating AI release cycle: GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 shipped back to back, leaving labs and practitioners with barely any time to finish benchmarking one frontier model before the next arrives.
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