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Case files

the hard problems behind rema, one case at a time: what broke, what didn't work, and what it changed.

by diar shakimov, each case dated to when it happened.

  1. case 03

    i capped my own evidence at 500 rows. most auditors didn't notice.

    a loader cap i had added in march kept 500 of 1,500 rows and 50 of 65 columns, and said nothing. 6 of 48 evaluation cells ran on truncated files, and the auditors' concern rate barely moved.

    · 7 min read
  2. case 02

    we blamed the api key for 42 hours. it was 768 tokens.

    the live demo served a months-old cached answer for about 42 hours. three different causes produced the same response, and the one that mattered only showed up in a narrow log window.

    · 5 min read
  3. case 01

    my benchmark was grading its own homework

    i grew the benchmark from 26 cases to 77 in a day. then found that the gold labels for 51 of them had been picked by the retriever the benchmark grades.

    · 6 min read