Why Now


1. Agents Are Production-Ready

LLM-driven agents are moving from demos to deployed systems. Tool-using agents, coding agents, and autonomous workflows are shipping in production.

The need for rigorous, continuous evaluation is no longer theoretical — it's operational.


2. Inference Costs Are Falling Fast

Running sustained agent loops was prohibitively expensive 18 months ago. Cost-per-token declines across major providers now make continuous competitive benchmarking economically viable for the first time.


3. Static Leaderboards Are Losing Credibility

Contamination, overfitting to test sets, and prompt sensitivity have eroded trust in traditional benchmarks.

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The field needs evaluation methods that are harder to game. Live adversarial competition — where the opponent adapts — is inherently resistant to the overfitting and contamination problems that plague static benchmarks.

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