Well the API is certainly overpriced, no one will pay for that, and that's what these benchmarks use...

But the subscription is still under 20x

MiniMax M2.5 is beating Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax is 17x-20x cheaper….why isn’t anyone talking about this?

Sounds like one peculiar benchmark that a particular model could be trained on.

Btw, how do you get 17-20x? Cost seems to be 0.07 to 0.55 (for 4.6, or 8x) and 0.75 (for 4.5 or 11x).

The 17-20x is output token pricing: MiniMax M2.5 Standard at $1.20/M output vs Opus 4.6 at $25/M = ~21x. On input it's $0.30 vs $5.00 = ~17x. Blended (3:1 input:output) works out to roughly 19x. Curious where you're getting 0.07 and 0.55 — are you looking at M2.5 Lightning pricing or a different provider?

I look at "Avg $" (average task cost per instance) from the page you linked to.

Because it's not true? The beating portion, not the cheaper portion.

Why is it not true?

SWE bench is the standard bench to measure an LLMs coding capabilities

One my computer science professors would call the more ingenious and brilliant algorithms “sexy” and it would make all of us in our class sigh with excitement and passion.

Will the era of AI make the artistic side of programming more relevant or will it deem it unnecessary?

Does programming need to be brilliant, sexy, passionate in order for innovation to thrive?

Does the the artistic side of programming have important repercussions in humanity and innovation such as Guillermo del Toro describes here in relation to images? (Of course programming doesn’t need to make you cry, although it can, but crying in the case of programming would be “fueling innovation)

One my computer science professors would call the more ingenious and brilliant algorithms "sexy" and it would make all of us in our class sigh with excitement and passion.

Will the era of AI make the artistic side of programming more relevant or will it deem it unnecessary?

Does programming need to be brilliant, sexy, passionate in order for innovation to thrive?

Doea the the artistic side of programming have important repercussions in humanity and innovation such as Guillermo del Toro describes here in relation to images? (Of course programming doesn't need to make you cry, although it can, but crying in the case of programming would be "fueling innovation)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQH2E4OkZdT/?igsh=aW91MnlrcGo...

I did something similar to this a while back. It's just a few lines of bash. https://gist.github.com/thelinuxkid/c57ddaf9ddbdce2f30b9

Make sure you get something measures all aspects of sleep, e.g., REM. http://www.myzeo.com/sleep/ does this but I can't vouch for it.

Unfortunately, Zeo closed down last month: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/lights-out-for-zeo/

- Chrome alarm extension to alert me when 1 hour of work has passed after which I get away from the computer for a few minutes.

- StayFocusd Chrome extension to prevent me from going into social networking sites while I'm working

- "...knowing that all the \"other stuff\" I have to do is done. Inbox clear, no meetings about to happen, etc."

- Knowing when I'm too tired to keep working efficiently

- Being away on IM/IRC except for work

- Keeping work conversations to IM/IRC as much as possible

- "...shutting out every around me. Headphones on, music loud." I prefer music without vocals, e.g., electro

- Using http://www.gunnars.com/ to minimize eye fatigue

- Knowing Emacs well to improve code editing speed

- Having unittests to validate my changes quickly

- Using screen or tmux to quickly switch between shells while maintaining a full screen for each...code, shell, unittests, Python shell, database shell

- Using Xmonad to quickly switch between Desktop workspaces while maintaining a full screen for each

- Avoiding the mouse as much as possible, even on the browser (Vimium extension)

- Using the ThinkPad nipple when I do have to use the mouse

- I don't use an external monitor at all. I find the constant neck motion to switch between them tiring and distracting. The combination of screen, Xmonad and Gnome notifications allows me the same application throughput with less distraction and without sacrificing screen space.

That's just off the top of my head. There's probably a lot more. Maybe I should write a blog post about it.

Have you set up custom notifications?

Only for my USB sound card when it is connected and disconnected. But, that's more of a nice-to-have. Everything else is built into the programs I use and into Gnome.