Sixteen months ago, Reddit's top review of Meta's flagship AI model called it a pathetic release from one of the richest corporations on the planet. Today Meta shipped a coding model that trails exactly one lab on earth. The story of those sixteen months is Mark refusing to lose. April 2025 was the bottom. Llama 4 underperformed on nearly every independent benchmark, leaked internal messages described tweaks to inflate eval scores, and Behemoth got shelved indefinitely. Meta's model scored 18…