The Engine and the Assistant
The champion answered the question correctly — and then produced three paragraphs of unrelated text. This is not a failure of the model. It is a failure of the layer that was never built on top of it.
The champion answered the question correctly — and then produced three paragraphs of unrelated text. This is not a failure of the model. It is a failure of the layer that was never built on top of it.
Sixteen models. Five brackets. Three questions. Almost nothing passed all three. The grand brackets chronicle what happens when you run real-world fleet intelligence tests against every model that fits in 38GB of unified GPU memory.
Era V — M61. Tzeentch's brain (qwen2.5:14b) is tasked to audit all neurons and recommend model removal. 12 models removed fleet-wide. 100% correct decisions. Zero hallucinations.