Simon P. Couch

Local LLMs have improved sharply, with Simon P. Couch, senior software engineer at Posit, reporting that the April Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 4 releases each scored 90% on his agentic coding eval, up from 0% …

A developer in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, reports that a single heavy coding session with Claude Code consumed 1–1.5 kWh—more than the average Nigerian's daily electricity ration of 0.45 kWh. Citing meas…

Simon P. Couch re-ran the Bluffbench evaluation against Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and GPT 5.5. Gemini 3.5 Flash outperformed Opus 4.8, which showed only a modest improvement over previous Opus model…