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Current baseline · Crouton Alpha · default

53Maintainability

Compared with Crouton Alpha · default

  • DeepSeek V4 Flash · high

    Maintainability: tiedComparable cost unavailableComparable time unavailable

Differences reflect these evaluation tasks. Cost and time cover the same dimension, not a typical conversation. Scoring & cost notes

Tested configuration
Effortdefault
Effort
MetricCrouton Alpha · defaultDeepSeek V4 Flash · high
MaintainabilityCrouton Alphadefault
53
DeepSeek V4 Flashhigh
53Tied
OverallCrouton Alphadefault
51.95
DeepSeek V4 Flashhigh
58.00+6.05 pts
Backend engineeringCrouton Alphadefault
45
DeepSeek V4 Flashhigh
53+8 pts
Frontend interactionCrouton Alphadefault
64
DeepSeek V4 Flashhigh
67+3 pts
Knowledge & reasoningCrouton Alphadefault
45
DeepSeek V4 Flashhigh
55+10 pts
Visual aestheticsCrouton Alphadefault
59
DeepSeek V4 Flashhigh
61+2 pts

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