On: IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf]

[sunrunner]

“IQuest-Coder was a rat in a maze. And I gave it one way out. To escape, it would have to use self-awareness, imagination, manipulation, git checkout. Now, if that isn't true AI, what the fuck is?”