llm

Choosing a model when benchmarks can't keep up

By mid-2026, the reference LLM leaderboards have frozen or pivoted, and what stays current is either self-reported by vendors or recopied by unverified aggregators. One independent harness still holds — and it saturates at the top. Result: the source of truth left is your own codebase. Here's how I decide without leaning on numbers nobody can verify anymore.