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MIT Tech Review warns about the inevitable weakness of metrics.

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The June 29 Download flags the structural gap between what benchmarks measure and what actually matters. Read it right after the GLM-5.2 numbers above. A 39% F1 on IDOR detection is a real signal, but a benchmark score is not the same as the model being good at your task. Ground your evals in the work, not the leaderboard.


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