Surge planned a Kaggle Bench Summit talk on benchmarks that resemble real work
In an October 28 post, echen said the planned San Francisco talk would address ambiguous prompts and professional judgment.
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echen said Surge planned to speak at the Kaggle Bench Summit in San Francisco at 2 p.m. on October 28, 2026. The proposed discussion covered benchmarks with ambiguous prompts, messy environments and professional judgment, along with lessons from building DAYJOB, sudo L7 and GDP.*. echen also planned to discuss why frontier models still struggle; the post announced the talk rather than recounting a delivered session.
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