Frontier models are better judged by five minutes of weird jokes than 40 benchmark numbers
korymath · x · 2026-10-26
korymath's "Sunday Spicy Take": you learn more about a frontier model in five minutes of trying to get it to write a weird joke than from 40 bold numbers in a benchmark table — a familiar critique of benchmark-driven evaluation culture, without further detail.
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