Eval design note: models self-select style references in a separate call to isolate the effect

maxsloef · x · 2026-09-27

maxsloef explains the self-elicitation design in his Namedrop eval: each model picks a named reference evoking the target adjectives. Because choosing the reference during page creation would trigger longer chain-of-thought reasoning, the selection happens in a separate call — cleanly isolating the reference effect.

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