Creative Writing and Ideation
Best for fiction, marketing voice, narrative, brainstorming, and stylised prose. Weights collaboration/style control, creative writing skill, ideation, and judgment about audience. Pure coding benchmarks should not dominate.
Fit score ≠ absolute IQ
- Fit score is a weighted blend of this Quest’s attribute/skill weights (and optional cost/tempo soft prefs). Higher = better match for this job among scored Builds.
- Attribute inputs are peer-public scores (roughly 40–95 within the current peer set). A low STR here can still be a strong absolute model — it just ranks lower among current scored peers on that axis.
- Decisive means the leader is ≥4 fit points ahead of #2. Smaller gaps → pick on price, Party stack, or taste.
Peer set today: 6 scored Builds. Adding another re-ranks peers — re-run the engine after new evidence.
Leading option (no decisive winner)
Leads this Quest among scored Builds — gap is modest. Strongest blend on CHA + Creative Writing. Gemini 3.1 Pro for deep research, long-context synthesis, and multimodal work when judgment and modalities matter as much as pure SWE points.
Struggle · No scored signal for Ideation on this Build yet
Suggested multi-model stack
Most jobs want a Party — not one model forever. Primary handles the Quest; ceiling covers hard escalations; value handles volume and drafts.
Best weighted Fit among scored Builds (gap is modest — Party the rest).
Peer STR 95 — escalate hard coding or agentic work here.
Cheapest list stack among remaining candidates ($2/$6) for volume or drafts.
What we weight
Relative importance of each input in the Fit formula.
- Insufficient creative evidence → show insufficient evidence, not coding proxy scores.
Contribution breakdown
Peer-public input × Quest weight. Bars show weight mass; numbers show the score fed into Fit.
All scored candidates
Leads this Quest among scored Builds — gap is modest. Strongest blend on CHA + Creative Writing. Gemini 3.1 Pro for deep research, long-context synthesis, and multimodal work when judgment and modalities matter as much as pure SWE points.
Struggle · No scored signal for Ideation on this Build yet
3.5 fit points behind Gemini 3.1 Pro · API · High thinking. Still solid where CHA / Creative Writing matter. You want near-frontier coding and agentic work with strong price and speed.
Struggle · No scored signal for Ideation on this Build yet
4.6 fit points behind Gemini 3.1 Pro · API · High thinking. Still solid where CHA / Creative Writing matter. You want OpenAI tooling + max-effort frontier performance on hard multi-step jobs.
Struggle · WIS · Judgment is a relative soft spot (40 peer public)
18.0 fit points behind Gemini 3.1 Pro · API · High thinking. Still solid where CHA / Creative Writing matter. You want one primary Build for coding and writing that stays pleasant under human supervision, holds constraints, and rarely needs the top-tier price.
Struggle · INT · Reasoning is a relative soft spot (40 peer public)
20.2 fit points behind Gemini 3.1 Pro · API · High thinking. Still solid where CHA / Creative Writing matter. The job is hard enough that a wrong answer costs more than Opus tokens.
Struggle · CHA · Collaboration is a relative soft spot (40 peer public)
Capability snapshot
Peer public ranks feed Fit; raw aggregates stay absolute evidence fusion. Full sheet: Codex →
What matters most
- Distinct voice and stylistic control
- Fresh angles without cliché spam
- Collaborative revision without flattening tone
Common failure modes
- Generic AI cadence and safe clichés
- Ignoring requested constraints (length, POV, audience)
- Over-editing creative work into bland correctness