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New AI Model Scores 87.8, But Can It Code?

29 May 2026 · The Neural Feed
New AI Model Scores 87.8, But Can It Code? – Neural Toons comic

“Benchmarks are great—until your code breaks at 3 AM.”

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What happened: Benchmarks are great—until your code breaks at 3 AM.

This Neural Toon is based on the story “The frontier reasoning race is starting to look like a crowded subway station”.

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Comic transcript

Panel 1 – Ravi: Last model crashed our app.

Panel 1 – Elena: Boss wants Hy3 by Monday.

Panel 2 – Ravi: It scored 87.8 on public test.

Panel 2 – Elena: Beating GPT5.4 by 3 points?

Panel 3 – Ravi: But Priya will fix broken code 2 days.

Panel 3 – Elena: Great. I'll tell the team.

Panel 4 – Ravi: Paper says 40% fail on real data.

Panel 4 – Elena: We ship anyway. No choice.

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