'Altman Wept, for There Were No More Evals to Conquer': Benchmark Saturation Joke Circles AI Twitter
jachiam0 · x · 2026-09-04
OpenAI researcher jachiam0 revived a classic AI Twitter joke riffing on Alexander the Great: "Altman wept, for there were no more evals to conquer" — a jab at benchmark saturation following the GPT-6 launch. He notes he independently rediscovered it, crediting @theojaffee and others for beating him to it by years.
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