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Comment by paulirish

> Gemini 2.5 Pro now ranks #1 on the WebDev Arena leaderboard

It'd make sense to rename WebDev Arena to React/Tailwind Arena. Its system prompt requires [1] those technologies and the entire tool breaks when requesting vanilla JS or other frameworks. The second-order implications of models competing on this narrow definition of webdev are rather troublesome.

[1] https://blog.lmarena.ai/blog/2025/webdev-arena/#:~:text=PROM...

parent paulirish 1 year ago

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