the tribal model wars are mostly people describing their own workload and calling it a benchmark

an observation from watching these arguments for a couple of years now. someone says model A is clearly better. someone else, equally smart, equally honest, says model B, and they're baffled by each other, and the thread devolves. and almost every time, if you dig, they're not disagreeing about the models. they're doing completely different work and haven't noticed. the person doing heavy long-context reasoning on messy real documents has genuinely different needs than the person writing marketing copy, who