Comment by Workaccount2
2 months ago
The best benchmark is the community vibe in the weeks following a release.
Claude benchmarks poorly but vibes well. Gemini benchmarks well and vibes well. Grok benchmarks well but vibes poorly.
(yes I know you are gushing with anecdotes, the vibes are simply the approximate color of gray born from the countless black and white remarks.)
> The best benchmark is the community vibe in the weeks following a release.
True, just be careful what community you use as a vibe-check. Most of the mainstream/big ones around AI and LLMs basically have influence campaigns run against them, are made of giant hive-minds that all think alike and you need to carefully asses if anything you're reading is true or not, and votes tend to make it even worse.
I generally check LM Arena as well as which models have had the most weekly tokens on openrouter
the vibes are just a collection anecdotes
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