benchmarks
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I Rewrote the Test Until My Writing Passed It
Five commits in four days, every one adjusting the grader that judges this blog's drafts, every one triggered by a verdict I disagreed with. Finance has been making that mistake with real money since the seventies.
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Shortcut scored 5.9, Claude scored 5.5, both failed
A reader asked which spreadsheet agent to buy. The honest answer is a 0.4-point gap on a 10-point test where both tools landed under 60%, plus a $996 annual price difference nobody benchmarked.