Chinese shops game access to Opus for PCB design — coding benchmarks are broken
xiaosun86 · x · 2026-11-11
The author argues coding benchmarks badly understate how dominant Opus is over rival models. Evidence: Chinese small businesses play cat-and-mouse just to keep using Opus for customer PCB designs, since switching to Argon or Astra collapses the pipeline — 'literally tokens in, revenue out.' His conclusion: these benchmarks are no better than Jim Cramer's stock picks, divorced from real engineering value.
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