Hamel Husain amplifies skepticism: public benchmarks hurt their target audience most
HamelHusain · x · 2026-10-26
Hamel Husain retorts CompleteSkeptic's long-standing anti-benchmark stance: even when your model leads, don't blindly trust public leaderboards. The biggest victims of benchmarks are exactly their target audience — people too busy to play with models themselves and build intuition for their intelligence. A quoted reply claims others are copying "Jev" superficially without replicating its full capability gap (unverified).
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