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Announcing gmickel-bench: Real-World Evals

Been wanting to do this for a while

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Gordon Mickel
Dec 08, 2025
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Most AI benchmarks tell you if a model can solve a LeetCode puzzle. They don’t tell you if it can ship a product.

I got tired of guessing which model to use for actual work. So I built gmickel-bench.

It is a living scoreboard based on the real-world engineering tasks I actually ship:

  • Full-Stack: Building OAuth 2.1 servers on Convex.

  • Frontend: Designing comp…

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