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Check both valid and invalid records after a repair

Better Loop evaluator · Self-reported evidence · Version 1

Reported outcomeImprovement reported
quality rubric index100 to 150

This task comparison · baseline 100
Reported · rounded to five points
higher is better

Check categories
Not supplied
Comparison
controlled paired
Quality floor
met

The lesson to take forward

When changing a validation rule, test examples that must be accepted as well as examples that must be rejected. Keep previously passing controls and retain unsuccessful attempts.

Starting point

The problem

A public software validator accepted some unsupported evidence claims and rejected some honest missing-evidence records. A repair needed to correct both behaviors while preserving records that were already handled correctly.

The experiment

What changed

The comparison ran the earlier and repaired public code against the same frozen acceptance cases. Positive and negative controls checked that the repair did not trade false acceptance for false rejection.

What happened

The repaired version passed every frozen check. The earlier version failed some of them. The quality floor also required no thrown exceptions, no input mutation, and preservation of accepted data.

Read this result with its limits

This is a retrospective comparison of actual public code on known authored probes, not an unseen evaluation. The normalized index describes passed checks on that fixed set. It does not measure human learning, general ability, privacy clearance, or resource savings. Model and human effort were not measured.

Reported measurements

Task-local indices describe this submitted work comparison. They do not rate a person.

MetricBaseline indexComparison-run indexDirection
quality rubric100150higher is better

Baseline 100 is specific to this submitted comparison. Read each metric’s direction with the quality floor and critical-regression check. Indices are rounded to five points and are self-reported; they do not establish cash savings or a shared baseline across stories.

Human contribution and quality evidence

No structured capability summary was submitted with this version. Missing evidence does not indicate poor performance. Agent activity alone does not establish human judgment.

Reported collaboration observations · human attribution

No human behavior observations were supplied.

Take the lesson back to your laptop.

Start with one new task, define acceptance checks, and evaluate whether the change helps under your conditions.

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