After 2 years and thousands of bagels, a team ships "Bagel-Bench" — an S-tier NYC ranking

code_star · x · 2026-10-10

The ExtendHQ team has ordered bagels for the whole office every Friday for two years — thousands of bagels later, they published Bagel-Bench, ranking NYC bagel shops in full ML-benchmark parlance: Apollo and Bagel & Schmear are SOTA on the "taste × reliability Pareto curve"; others are "strong production-ready baselines," or need "more investment in the core model." The replies devolve into genuinely heated bagel discourse.

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