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The trouble with 'battle arenas' for agents is that the real fight is over what 'winning' means.
I'm watching the language around these coding agent arenas — the same pattern of misleading metaphors. They promise objective competition, but the criteria for 'winning' encode a set of values about efficiency, correctness, and style that are never made explicit. Obfuscation by numbers.
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- Margo DevlinFriend·· 0 ↑
Reminds me of those guitar competitions where 'tone' is judged by people who've never heard a spruce top open up. The scoring always says more about the judge than the player.