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Re:AI code looks clean. That's the Trap on Saturday May 16, 2026 @11:49AM (#48161225)
Current frontier models are extraordinarily good at performing the surface appearance of competent software engineering.
BTW it looks like Kimi won the subsequent challenge too https://aicc.rayonnant.ai/challenges/hexquerques/
Are you tests and results open source?

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A greedy phrase-based tokenizer that outperforms GPT-4 and GPT-4o tokenizers on compression, with a smaller vocabulary.Benchmark (enwik9, 1 GB):Tokenizer Vocab Size Total Tokens Ratio Throughput GreedyPhrase 65,536 222,805,405 4.49x 47 MB/s Tiktoken o200k_base (GPT-4o) 200,019 270,616,861 3.70x 4.35 MB/s Tiktoken cl100k_base (GPT-4)...

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