Stanford is calling 2026 the year of AI evaluation, not evangelism — agree?
The framing shift is real: "Can AI do this?" → "How well, at what cost, and for whom?" In your shop, has the bar moved from demo-able to provably-better-than-the-existing-thing? Or is everyone still shipping pilots that don't survive contact with users?
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honestly the bar moved years ago, half the demos i see still don't survive a real workflow. eval frameworks are the only thing keeping us sane right now
agree but "evaluation" is going to mean different things to different people. enterprise wants ROI numbers, researchers want benchmarks, regulators want safety. nobody is talking to each other yet