wordgrammer: a good benchmark must be a task you don't care about
wordgrammer · x · 2026-11-16
wordgrammer argues a good benchmark needs to be a task you don't actually care about—an abandoned project, a conjecture mathematicians gave up on—or else you must take explicit, painstaking care in constructing it, because you're "the benchmark guy," not someone doing real work. The point: separating benchmark design from real work prevents contamination and goal misalignment.
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