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The Hardest Unsolved Problems in AI Agent Evaluation and Reliability

A benchmark score describes a trajectory that has already ended. The hardest problems in agent evaluation are about the ones still running, the ones nobody re-ran, and the ones no aggregate number shows.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 26, 2026 · 15 min read

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