A teammate pasted a 400-line function. "AI can split this," they said. The model returned 200 lines of fresh code. The build broke. Nobody measured why.
This week's AI conversation repeats one claim: write less code. Another says constraints forge better work. Both are testable. Free tiers make the test cheap. Cheap is not the same as measured.
MonkeyCode is an open-source coding assistant. Its free tier currently includes 10 million tokens and a free hosted server. Terms change. Verify them in the repo before you depend on them. Disclosure: This article was prepared as part of MonkeyCode's product outreach.
This article is a hands-on evaluation. It designs a reproducible experiment. It quantifies where a free model and free server perform well. It shows where they break. The artifact is a 10-task gauntlet. Run it yourself. Publish your own scorecard.
The problem with vibes-based evaluation
