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The Evaluation Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About

Public benchmarks are saturated. Private evals are unreproducible. The field is flying half-blind and pretending otherwise.

By The Memo · Wednesday, June 17, 2026 · 8 min read

The Evaluation Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About
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There's a peculiar silence at the center of AI research right now. Every lab publishes evaluation numbers. Every paper claims state-of-the-art on something. And yet ask any researcher off the record how much they trust those numbers, and you get a long pause.

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