Re:Claude Code's binary reveals silent A/B tests on core fea...
by 986aignan on Sunday March 15, 2026 @08:49AM
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That sounds like a good way to get extreme short-term optimization.
Say a particular finetune prioritizes profits right now and makes recommendations like "cut down on maintenance, you can make up for it later with your increased profits and their interest". It produces more profits, and wins the AB test. Later the chickens come home to roost.
You can reduce the problem by using long-term indicators, but then each AB test is very slow.
Every client is free and encouraged to feed back its financial health: profit for that hour/day/month/...
The AB(-X) test run by the LLM provider uses the correlation of a client's profit with its AB(-X) test, so that participating with the testing improves your profit statistically speaking (sometimes up sometimes down, but on average up).
You may say, what about that hiring decision? One thing is certain: when companies make more profit they are more likely to seek and accept more employees.