Nick Heiner warns 'benchmaxxing' hides gap between benchmarks and real ability

On the AI Engineer podcast, Heiner argues the term 'benchmaxxing' itself is the tell: labs openly brag about scores, teams stop asking whether a benchmark reflects reality, and every model launch shows a gap between benchmark numbers and actual capability.
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