repligate: Nitpicking LLM capability trend lines is false precision—eval error bars are bigger
repligate · x · 2026-11-10
repligate questions the community's obsession with nitpicking LLM capability trend lines. He argues that evals likely carry error bars—relative to what they actually measure—larger than the trend differences being debated, and you should simply expect to be surprised within a month. He calls the fallacy a mix of bikeshedding and false precision.
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