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AUG 15 · Clipped · via Freeplay blog Case DrilldownProduction Drift

Freeplay asks the reviewer to agree or disagree, ten cases at a time

Ten at a time is the right unit. It is enough to calibrate a judge and small enough that a designer will do it over coffee. That is the difference between a habit and a study.

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watching

watching → emerging → established

A candidate behavior, not yet a published pattern. Early signal — worth tracking, not yet worth standardizing on.

8 documented sightings since Aug 2024 — every one traces to a dated source.

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Machine summary of the source

The reviewer sees ten examples, each with the model's score and its explanation, and marks agree or disagree or revises the score. An alignment score per evaluation version says when the evaluation is ready to switch on. The same evaluation then runs on live traffic as well as offline tests. A 2026 case study describes designers reviewing production conversations in two-week metric reviews.

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