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Developer builds small benchmark to pick best LLM for coding

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer tested three LLMs on 14 coding problems across Python, C#, and Bash, scoring pass@k, cost, and latency. All models achieved 100% pass@3 on problems they answered, but one was content-filtered on four problems. The key differentiators were cost (1.3x spread) and latency (6.6x spread), with one model performing poorly on Bash.

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The benchmark's value is in showing that accuracy is no longer the deciding factor; speed and cost per language matter more, but the small sample size limits generalizability.
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