62.8% on Aider Polyglot from a MacBook Pro. Then the other model we tried scored 4%. Here's what actually happened, with

Originally published at llmkube.com/blog/m5-max-aider-polyglot-and-finops . Cross-posted here for the dev.to audience. A 24-hour Aider Polyglot run, a follow-up bench that blew up in interesting ways, and a working $/MTok number from a Kubernetes operator that scrapes Apple Silicon power live. Two open-source PRs landed today to make all of this reproducible on any M-series Mac. This is a coding-model benchmark on locally-served weights, plus a FinOps story. Every benchmark number traces to resu