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I don't want to sound overly harsh here, but this is the kind of nonsense that shows why "vibes" are so much more trustworthy than "benchmarks" for assessments of what tools to use. The author has self-awareness about how flawed this benchmark is, but he still presents it as "evidence".

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It's a fair reason to question the efficacy of benchmarks but that doesn't necessarily follow on to a defence of the efficacy of "vibes."

Not disagreeing, just adding on, "experience" can involve a sixth sense / gut feelings. But when making a recommendation, an engineer should nonetheless be able to articulate their view with sound reasoning.

Given a brief brainstorming session, there will be many reasons why this particular experiment isn't directly applicable as evidence for some other project with different requirements. An instinct to over-generalize benchmark results might not be a vibes-based judgement, but it could be a reasoning error.

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