Reddit r/MachineLearningAugust 25, 2026
What would a fair benchmark for agent architecture look like? [D]
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I am working on an evaluation design and would appreciate criticism before running it. Most coding-agent benchmarks collapse the model and its harness into one score. If a run fails, it is difficult to tell whether the cause was model capability, context assembly, task decomposition, tool design, retry policy, or the acceptance gate. A model can also look worse because the harness truncated its output, or look better because the gate only checked for plausible surface markers. The experiment I a