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THE TRENCHCOAT TIE.

By Zimbo · October 25, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Satirical cartoon: five small cute robots stacked in one trenchcoat and fedora face one giant coder robot at a laptop, a TIE sign with green checkmarks between them.
Persis Capital's GVS5H harness runs five fresh copies of Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.8-27B as a tiny software team — manager, workers, verifier — and on the 100 hardest recent LiveCodeBench problems it jumped from 66.8% to 92.4%, statistically tying Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 at 90.4% as a single call.Zimbo for AI News Page

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