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Poetiq’s Meta-System Automatically Builds a Model-Agnostic Harness That Improved Every LLM Tested on LiveCodeBench Pro Without Fine-Tuning

One inference harness. Eight models tested. Every single one improved — no fine-tuning required.

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Why it matters

Poetiq's meta-system demonstrates a novel approach to model-agnostic optimization that bypasses traditional fine-tuning, suggesting a new category of inference-layer improvements that work across competitive model families. This challenges the assumption that model-specific tuning is necessary for performance gains.

The key facts

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  1. Meta-system built using only Gemini 3.1 Pro

  2. Same harness applied to 8 models without modification

  3. 100% success rate: all models showed improvement

  4. No fine-tuning required

  5. No access to model internals needed

  6. Tested on LiveCodeBench Pro benchmark

  7. Models tested include: GPT 5.5 High, Kimi K2.6, Gemini 3.0 Flash, and 4 others

  8. Published May 15, 2026

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Publisher excerpt: Poetiq's Meta-System automatically constructed and optimized an inference harness for LiveCodeBench Pro using only Gemini 3.1 Pro — no fine-tuning, no model internals. The same harness, applied without modification to GPT 5.5 High, Kimi K2.6, Gemini 3.0 Flash, and four other models, improved every…
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