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AI Benchmarks: Why Useless, Personalized Agents Prevail

AI Benchmarks: Why Useless, Personalized Agents Prevail

Update: 2025-10-06
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ai-benchmarks-why-useless-personalized-agents-prevail.

AI leaderboards are collapsing under Goodhart’s Law. Discover why the next evolution is personal, decentralized, and self-centered.

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Report: Standardized benchmarks have become de facto yardsticks by which capabilities of large language models are measured, celebrated, and funded. In its place, a new paradigm is emerging: one of decentralized, user-driven, and highly personalized agents. The report will deconstruct the "Benchmark Industrial Complex," exposing its mechanical, philosophical, and systemic flaws.

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AI Benchmarks: Why Useless, Personalized Agents Prevail

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