From 3d00098530e833f624554b5d1ddbd669ade1560b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: multipleof4 <planetrenox@protonmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 09:41:30 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Refactor: Remove benchmark statement, graph, and ranking

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@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
     </div>
     
     <div class="content">
-      <p>gpt‑5.1‑codex‑max just got added to API after having been added to Codex 2 weeks ago. I benchmarked it. Here's what I found.</p>
+      <p>gpt‑5.1‑codex‑max just got added to API after having been added to Codex 2 weeks ago.</p>
       
       <div class="score-card">
         <div class="model">
@@ -243,59 +243,11 @@
         <div class="grade d">7/11 D</div>
       </div>
       
-      <div class="visual">
-        <h2>Where It Lands</h2>
-        <div class="bars">
-          <div class="bar" style="height: 100%">
-            <div class="bar-label">Gemini 3 Pro</div>
-          </div>
-          <div class="bar" style="height: 95%">
-            <div class="bar-label">Claude Opus 4.5</div>
-          </div>
-          <div class="bar" style="height: 90%">
-            <div class="bar-label">DeepSeek v3.2</div>
-          </div>
-          <div class="bar" style="height: 73%">
-            <div class="bar-label">GPT‑5.1‑Codex‑Max</div>
-          </div>
-          <div class="bar" style="height: 73%">
-            <div class="bar-label">Claude Sonnet 4.5</div>
-          </div>
-          <div class="bar" style="height: 64%">
-            <div class="bar-label">GPT‑5.1‑Codex</div>
-          </div>
-        </div>
-      </div>
-      
       <div class="insight">
         <h3>The Takeaway</h3>
         <p>Max scores <span class="highlight">one point better</span> than regular Codex. That's something. But it's still <span class="highlight">worse than Gemini 3 Pro</span>, Claude Opus 4.5, and DeepSeek v3.2. It's only on par with Claude Sonnet 4.5.</p>
       </div>
       
-      <div class="ranking">
-        <h2>Current Lynchmark Ranking</h2>
-        <div class="rank-item rank-1">
-          <div class="rank">1</div>
-          <div>Google Gemini 3 Pro (Temperature: 0.35)</div>
-        </div>
-        <div class="rank-item rank-2">
-          <div class="rank">2</div>
-          <div>Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5</div>
-        </div>
-        <div class="rank-item rank-3">
-          <div class="rank">3</div>
-          <div>DeepSeek‑v3.2</div>
-        </div>
-        <div class="rank-item">
-          <div class="rank">4</div>
-          <div>GPT‑5.1‑Codex‑Max <span style="color: #666; font-size: 12px;">(new)</span></div>
-        </div>
-        <div class="rank-item">
-          <div class="rank">5</div>
-          <div>Claude Sonnet 4.5</div>
-        </div>
-      </div>
-      
       <div class="callout">
         <strong>The reality check:</strong> Even with this release, OpenAI is still far behind. This shows exactly why they declared "code red." The gap is real. They're not closing it fast enough.
       </div>