Against the LocalLLaMA hivemind: open models overranked, Haiku 5.5 underrated, ThreeJS benchmark useless
ForsookComparison · reddit · 2026-10-31
An r/LocalLLaMA poster lays out four contrarian takes challenging the open-weight community's consensus:
- Open-weight models were way overranked in Artificial Analysis V4; V5 may have overcorrected, but sweetheart models were over-hyped — GLM 5.3 is not a Grok competitor in his tests
- Haiku 5.5 is "crazy good" and genuinely challenges deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
- The Strata Dev isn't a villain — his 0.1 release just misled people about his goals
- ThreeJS-as-a-benchmark should be ignored entirely: over a year, pagoda animation quality shows no correlation with general or coding ability
A useful first-hand counterpoint to the sub's model rankings and benchmark habits.
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