Lesson learned. Don't blindly trust repos and make sure everything is stable for a long running (multi weeks) benchmark.
Summary
The author shares lessons learned from a long-running Django benchmark, highlighting fixes in the evaluation workflow stability and updated results showing Flash Next as the top performer with reasoning effort levels now properly evaluated.
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