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Do Not Trust the Benchmark: Limitations of General LLM Rankings and a Case for Task-Specific Evaluation

Benchmark scores increasingly influence the development, marketing, and selection of large language models (LLMs). Yet an overall score is interpretable only in relation to the system tested, the questions included, and the conditions of evaluation. This perspective examines five connected limitations of general LLM rankings: differences between evaluated and publicly available systems;…

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Scry: Congestion Pricing as Agent Rate-Limiting Infrastructure

Scry is a programmable search API for agents that replaces hard rate limits with congestion pricing. Instead of getting a 429 when you hit a quota, you get a price signal.

  • Scry replaces hard rate limits with congestion pricing model for agents.
  • Agents receive price signal instead of 429 error when quota is reached.
  • Agents can defer or cancel queries based on cost signal.

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