SentinelLABS recently examined the gap between cybersecurity benchmark scores and operational usefulness. In the months that followed, they observed those same design gaps in the flood of agentic systems hitting the market. This fail-fast development trend treats evaluation as a process that emerges after the proof of concept. In other words, teams build the system, demonstrate that it can work, and defer the harder task of establishing how reliably it performs and where it fails for a later
