- `[2026-07-15]` **arbo fully switched off image-judge (qwen-image-bench) -> gen; image-bench pending eviction post-bake.** Operator-directed full switch (comfy-dev executed, live in prod). Established: gen (`qwen3.6-35b-a3b-heretic`) is vision-enabled and was image-bench's predecessor as arbo's hero-judge; image-judge actually serves 4 roles (vision quality-scoring + identity-scoring + bbox grounding + an uncensored text tier), not just grounding. comfy-dev spot-check: gen faster on every task, grounding within ~3px, uncensoring preserved, and it FIXED a bug (image-judge's reasoning preamble broke json_object + stalled the router). Sequencing = short prod bake then evict (~30 GB GPU1 reclaim); revert = flip `ARBO_VISION_MODEL`. Full record: auto-memory `project_arbo_gen_switch_imagebench_evict`.