What Dan Shipper thinks about benchmarks

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1. 24 May 2026

   Our readingBenchmarks only rise on problems somebody has already framed and scored, so saturating them does not mean senior engineers have been replaced.

   Their wordsAnd so I think it's it's really important uh when when we think about benchmark progress to think about it from that perspective, which is benchmarks rise on problems that we've framed that we can articulate, that we can score. And there's a lot of work that's human work that uh it it can't be scored until you write it down

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