What Dmitri Dolgov thinks about benchmarks

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Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

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3 Aug 2026

Our readingThe model is table stakes; evaluation and metrics are the strategic moat, and they should be built before the technology.

Their wordsthat your model is really table stakes, but eval and metrics, that's your most important. That's your strategic moat. So, build your eval before you build your technology.

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