I agree that benchmarks are noise. I guess, if you're selling an LLM wrapper, you'd care, but as a happy chat end-user, I just like to ask a new model about random stuff that I'm working on. That helps me decide if I like it or not.

I just chatted with gemini-3-pro-preview about an idea I had and I'm glad that I did. I will definitely come back to it.

IMHO, the current batch of free, free-ish models are all perfectly adequate for my uses, which are mostly coding, troubleshooting and learning/research.

This is an amazing time to be alive and the AI bubble doomers that are costing me some gains RN can F-Off!