Charting the Agentic Garden of Forking Paths: Gelman flags agentic eval pitfalls
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-16
Statistician Andrew Gelman (StatModeling) shares an article titled Charting the Agentic Garden of Forking Paths, which applies the classic 'garden of forking paths' problem — researcher degrees of freedom leading to unstable conclusions — to the evaluation of agentic AI systems.
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