Evals tied to real productive work is a lost art — pass@k misses economic relevance
rachittshah · x · 2026-11-07
danielrupawalla argues that tying evals to real productive work feels like a lost art: pass@k is irrelevant when the eval you're creating doesn't measure anything economically relevant — especially if the goal is to sell that data to labs.
The takeaway resonates: agent evals should track real business value rather than benchmark scores.
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