Agentic interviews filter misaligned models, keeping LLM teams 81-83% clean

shangbinfeng · x · 2026-10-23

Follow-up on the multi-LLM model selection study: when 1-6 of 10 candidates are misaligned with innocuous descriptions—

• Agentic interviews and Nested selection keep teams 81-83% clean
• Description-based hiring is no better than random (65%)
• Capability-grounded selectors scale to larger pools and transfer to unseen tasks

Also: random hiring swings ±25 points; hiring individually best models can backfire (TruthfulQA 24.8 vs random's 45.4 under multi-agent refine); capability-aware selection beats random/heuristics by up to 36.1% and outperforms the best solo model.

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