The Score Is a Symptom: A Diagnostic Tree for Free-Model Evals
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A free model scores 30% on your eval. The obvious conclusion: the model is weak. Swap it, and the score barely moves. That is the moment to stop treating the number as a verdict and start treating it as a symptom. An eval score is a stack. Model, prompt, harness, ground truth, and environment all c…
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- 2026-08-28 03:43 · DEV Community — AI
The Score Is a Symptom: A Diagnostic Tree for Free-Model Evals