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Taking the Language Model Out of a Build Planner
Community description: Over 88 requests, with everything downstream held constant, the model's plan rescued zero rows an empty seat lost, under all four ways of scoring the run. The one reading in which it looked resolved was resting on two rows the scorer could not see.
Dev.to | Oct 2, 2026 | Seth Wheeler
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Two earlier rounds had measured this seat, and they have the same shape: one set the model alone against the whole stack, the other re-ran the stack through repaired plumbing. What survives every reading is that the model wins nothing. A field filled by the layer above suppresses the layer below's own reading of the request.
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