Frontier model evals move to one standardized scaffold, ditching harness hand-holding
gleech · x · 2026-09-24
gleech says his team now tests frontier models with a single standardized scaffold, dropping the heavy signposting and borderline-cheating aids of past eval harnesses — a shift toward measuring raw model capability rather than harness-inflated scores, responding to criticism that older benchmarks overestimated models.
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