SWAGBENCH ranks 215 pieces of AI conference swag; OpenAI's Game Boy takes gold
demian_ai · x · 2026-10-30
demianai shipped SWAGBENCH after an intern returned from 3 months of AI conference networking with 215 pieces of free merch and a spreadsheet. The joke benchmark scores swag on design, wearability, status and 'why does this exist': OpenAI's DevDay-only Game Boy clone wins gold ('AGI can wait'), a Navier-Stokes tee silver, Anthropic's thinking cap bronze; Supabase's gold cap is SOTA at a $1,000,000 list price. Also ranked: Boring Company's Not-a-Flamethrower, Airbnb's cereal, Runway hot sauce with a real $100 bill, and a Vercel creatine tub, all plotted on a status-vs-wearability chart.
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