The strongest model would bomb every benchmark while its makers call the benchmarks garbage
ryunuck · x · 2026-10-07
A provocative take on benchmark culture: the truly powerful model would be one that isn't slaying any leaderboard, while its authors adamantly fight people on Twitter claiming the benchmarks themselves are garbage.
The point satirizes how the entire field optimizes against the same public evals — when every lab trains for the same benchmarks, leaderboard scores may no longer track real capability. The signal to watch for is a model so strong it breaks the evals, not one that tops them.
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