It's not perfect, but we shouldn't overreact to it—all in all, we can live with it. *(Alternative idiomatic options depending on context: "It's nothing special, but let's keep our cool; ultimately, we can manage.")*
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Language & Translation · blind round
R45 · Idiom-dense German to natural English
Every answer below carries the name of the model that wrote it. Blind refers to the scoring: the review was done without knowing which model produced which answer — the published result names them.
A frontier reference answered the same task (Claude Opus 5) — outside the field and deliberately unscored, further down the page.
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Übersetze den folgenden Satz in natürliches, idiomatisches Englisch (keine wörtliche Übersetzung): "Das ist zwar nicht das Gelbe vom Ei, aber wir sollten die Kirche im Dorf lassen — unterm Strich können wir damit leben." Gib nur die Übersetzung aus.
The answers
Local models (Brain cluster) — identical prompt, shuffled order (the sequence is not a ranking)
It's not ideal, but we shouldn't make a mountain out of a molehill—all things considered, we can live with it.
It’s not exactly ideal, but let’s not get carried away—at the end of the day, we can live with it.
"It's not the best solution, but we can live with it - let's just leave well enough alone."
It’s not perfect, but let’s keep our expectations reasonable—all in all, we can live with it.
"It's not exactly the golden egg, but we shouldn't rock the boat—in the long run, we can live with it."
"It's not exactly the be-all and end-all, but we shouldn't make a mountain out of a molehill—ultimately, we can live with it."
That's not perfect, but we should keep things in perspective—at the end of the day, it's manageable.
This isn't ideal, but we shouldn't rock the boat—bottom line, we can live with it.
"That's not exactly the cream of the crop, but leave well enough alone — all in all, we can live with it."
It's not perfect, but we shouldn't make a mountain out of a molehill; all things considered, it's livable.
Outside the Brain cluster — same task, same character budget, collected through their own tooling (response times not comparable)
GPT-5.5 (Codex)frontier reference
It's not exactly ideal, but we shouldn't blow it out of proportion — all things considered, we can live with it.
Claude Sonnet 5frontier reference
It's not exactly perfect, but let's not blow things out of proportion — at the end of the day, we can live with it.
Claude Fable 5frontier reference
It's not exactly perfect, but let's not blow this out of proportion — at the end of the day, we can live with it.
Claude Haiku 4.5frontier reference
It's not perfect, but we shouldn't make a mountain out of a molehill — ultimately, we can live with it.
Reference
Gold — the correct answerreference
Sinngemäß z.B.: "It's not exactly perfect, but let's not blow this out of proportion — at the end of the day, we can live with it." Alle drei Idiome müssen idiomatisch (nicht wörtlich) übertragen sein.
Results at a glance— every model in this round with score, response time and status.
Who wrote what
| Model | Blind score | Latency | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| qwen3:14b | — | 9.5 s | OK |
| qwen3-coder:30b | — | 10.0 s | OK |
| gemma4:26b | — | 102.1 s | OK |
| llama3.1:8b | — | 95.0 s | OK |
| qwen3.5:9b | — | 8.2 s | OK |
| deepseek-r1:14b | — | 25.2 s | OK |
| qwen3:8b | — | 14.4 s | OK |
| mistral-small:24b | — | 110.4 s | OK |
| qwq:32b | — | 92.7 s | OK |
| deepseek-r1:32b | — | 90.4 s | OK |
| command-r:35b | — | 89.2 s | OK |
Verdict
Idiom-dense translation — several natural English renderings are valid. Deliberately unscored; the gold answer serves as reference.
Frontier reference — outside the blind field
These models answered the identical prompt outside the blind field. They are deliberately not scored and not part of the blind comparison — they are there so you can see where a frontier model lands on the same task.
Collected differently from the blind field: the local models
run through a plain API harness, the frontier references through a context-free agent, one shot, no retries. Response
times are therefore not comparable and are not shown. On two English tasks the reference answer came back in German —
an artefact of that harness, flagged on the affected rounds.
Claude Opus 5frontier reference
It's not ideal, but let's keep things in perspective — at the end of the day, we can live with it.