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Myth FAQ: An Eval Score Is Not a Measurement (and Six Reproducibility Traps)

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Your eval score moved from 0.81 to 0.84. You shipped the change. Next week the old baseline won again. Was that improvement real? Or was it noise wearing a decimal point? I keep meeting the same pattern in agent work. A single number gets treated as a measurement. It is usually an anecdote with a d…

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  1. 2026-10-16 19:43 · DEV Community — AI
    Myth FAQ: An Eval Score Is Not a Measurement (and Six Reproducibility Traps)

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