Annotating 2,785 traces: researcher jokes about the grind of modern AI research
santiviquez · x · 2026-11-08
santiviquez shares that he's running an experiment and now has to manually annotate 2,785 traces — "forgot this is what modern research looks like." The post resonates as a wry reminder that despite all the hype, hands-on labeling and evaluation of agent traces remains a core grind in AI research today.
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