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Comment by simlevesque

21 hours ago

We can't have hard evidence. It's a SaaS and they own the code and the machine it runs on.

So it may be a widespread hallucination. But there's no evidence of that either.

Run a benchmark with a large number of samples, rerun a few days later. Compare results, use statistics to see if there's a statistically significant difference.

  • Doing this in a way that doesn't get you noticed or fucked with is potentially going to be quite difficult.

    If they have a "hey we're being benchmarked" mode, which is not hard to imagine, avoiding tripping it is going to be annoying and difficult to prove.

    • You would want to use your own benchmark, certainly, not something publicly known. But outside of that I don't think "this is a benchmark" is such an easy category to determine -- a benchmark should be similar to a typical scenario anyway.

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We could still have soft evidence though. Make a Todo app on Monday, and make a Todo app on Tuesday, and see what it makes in comparison.