Eval Harness Ignores Timeouts by Default to Prevent Infra Penalties

nirmal_dist · x · 2026-07-21

An AI model evaluation framework received significant updates: the default harness was renamed to bash for clarity, and harbor timeouts are now ignored by default. The developer noted that wall-clock time limitations mainly test infrastructure or luck, acting as a footgun that unduly punishes models served by providers with worse p99 latency. Legacy experimental environments were also dropped.

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