> let the community decide
Which community are we talking about? The professionals with 10+ years experience using LLMs, the vibe coders that have no experience writing code and everyone in between? If you read some of the online communities the experiences with the models all over the place, some compare GPT 5.5 to the second coming of JC while others think it's stupider than 5.4.
I personally don't have time to build a set of private benchmarks to compare the models that are coming out so I'm mostly relying on private and semi-private benchmarks to get a feel for how models are improving before I subscribe to a service and start using it myself. At least it's something a bit more reliable than the vibes of random people and bots on reddit.
yea lol i think the community on this one is woefully unqualified to call any shots here. the goalposts are basically teleporting and everyone's aligning success with their own incredibly vague, personally created agentic non-deterministic workflows success. there's like no real answers coming from "the community" in this space at the moment, it's vividly similar to cryptocurrency cycles. most importantly, like you say, vibe coders are going to be the largest subset of the community and probably the most unqualified to assess performance because they're mostly clueless to how things work under the hood.