I don’t think this is even remotely true in practice.

I honestly I have no idea what benchmarks are benchmarking. I don’t write JavaScript or do anything remotely webdev related.

The idea that all models have very close performance across all domains is a moderately insane take.

At any given moment the best model for my actual projects and my actual work varies.

Quite honestly Opus 4.5 is proof that benchmarks are dumb. When Opus 4.5 released no one was particularly excited. It was better with some slightly large numbers but whatever. It took about a month before everyone realized “holy shit this is a step function improvement in usefulness”. Benchmarks being +15% better on SWE bench didn’t mean a damn thing.