The coding gap is only ~4 months, not ~6
scaling01 · x · 2026-10-28
AI benchmark commentator scaling01 notes that the coding capability gap between frontier models is actually around 4 months, not the 6 months commonly assumed — suggesting frontier coding progress moves faster than widely believed.
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