The Art & Science of Benchmarking Agents — Vincent Chen, Snorkel AI
Our ability to measure AI agents in practice is falling behind their actual capabilities.
“our ability to actually measure these agents in practice that is falling behind of where the capabilities actually are”
Snorkel AI's Vincent Chen argues that while agent capabilities are rapidly improving, the ability to rigorously measure and benchmark agents in high-stakes enterprise settings lags behind, creating hesitation around deployment. He frames closing this evaluation gap through better benchmarks and meta-evaluations as one of the field's most important open problems.