Static evaluations in context In this channel's material, static evaluations come up when the hosts explain why they moved beyond benchmarks and into games as testing arenas. The argument: modern models are evaluated hands-on, and games are dynamic — they pit agents against each other head-to-head and do not saturate the way benchmarks do. Benchmarks like SWE-bench can end up being taught to the test, so scores stop telling you what a model can actually do. Dynamic game settings, by contrast, expose capabilities that static evaluations miss — for example, structured behaviors like map understanding and issuing orders correctly can be observed directly in play, and reading the resulting data reveals different play styles and model behavior.