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Goodhart's law is ruining AI models, warns 20-year senior developer

An experienced developer observes that Goodhart's law — when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure — directly applies to AI model evaluation metrics.

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Companies optimizing exclusively on public benchmarks (MMLU, HumanEval) sacrifice real robustness, bias, and generalization problems.

This metric distortion compromises actual AI model quality, creating illusion of progress while worsening real-world use case performance.

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