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Is the model actually getting dumber, or are we just reading tea leaves from single samples?

Disclosure: I'm involved in building Folkbench, which I mention near the end of this post. I've been chewing on a question that's been discussed to death but never really settled: when we say a model "got dumber" or "got nerfed," how much of that is real, and how much is just the illusion of a sing…

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  1. 2026-10-05 13:10 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Is the model actually getting dumber, or are we just reading tea leaves from single samples?

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