Satirical dialogue skewers RL environments: nobody actually reads the thousands of tasks and rubrics
samiramanabi · x · 2026-10-02
A satirical dialogue making the rounds highlights a common failure mode in RL training environments: when challenged on how he knows the environments are "built on garbage," the critic answers that he actually read them — and almost nobody does. The other side insists the environments contain thousands of tasks and rubrics and that "the evals are going up," to which the reply is that even the researchers who built them likely never read them or know what they made. The piece lands on a real concern in the field: rising eval scores say little about the actual quality of environment tasks and rubrics.
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