Open model releases have turned into a weekly event. Another checkpoint, another chart, another round of confident replies under it — and somewhere in that noise I'm supposed to decide whether this thing deserves a slot in my daily workflow. For a long time my process was: open a chat, throw it a prompt I half-remember, and let my mood write the review. That process failed me more than once. A model I dismissed after one bad answer turned out fine. A model I adopted on a good first impression...