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Codex is one of the most infamous examples of slopware. Just having the window unhidden on my mac will cause it to use 100% of the GPU displaying the spinner message.

THE SPINNER MESSAGE CAUSES 100% GPU USAGE ON AN MBP M5!!

So any time you're waiting on the model (which is 90% of the time), your fans will be blasting (careful, don't use it on battery).

The issue is on github and close to 6 months old. Probably since the release of vibe coded junk. I would literally fix it myself but it's closed source for whatever reason.

There are many discussions about which model is better, or if vibe coding is even possible. I point you to the extent of what one of the most well funded, money flush, well staffed model making companies can do with vibe coding.

To me a screwup this bad (where the CEO has already made it clear they're now "focussing on coding") indicates that there's something truly broken in the company. No one on polymarket expects them to have a leading model any time soon for example.

It's a tragedy. The world needs competition to anthropic.

Claude Opus 4.8 2 months ago

Just speculating but I "feel" 4.7 was post-trained using more synthetic techniques. The way it writes for one thing, it's "personality", is less human and more fatiguing-AI-slop like.

Claude Opus 4.7 3 months ago

grok-4.1-fast is the the number 2 model on this benchmark.

~~If you've used this model in real life to do any sort of programming, and have seen its output, you would know that there is something VERY wrong with your benchmark.~~

Edit: Oh sorry, I looked at the questions, I see this is also for SQL specifically. Interesting. Maybe they tuned that grok model for SQL. Cool site. I bookmarked it.

Claude Opus 4.7 3 months ago

If we learned anything from the code leak is that they essentially do not know what is in the blackbox of the code for that 500k line mass. So that's plausible.

Claude Opus 4.7 3 months ago

"but most of our samples are from the last 2 months."

There's your major issue. That's well within the brutal quantization window.