Thinking About Thinking: When LLMs Start Writing Their Own Report Cards
Report cards are usually written by teachers, managers, examiners, auditors, or other people with the institutional privilege of saying, “Nice effort, but no.” The paper Reinforcing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Self-Evolving Rubrics asks a stranger question: what if the model helps write the report card for its own reasoning process?1 That sounds like the kind of governance idea that would make a compliance officer reach for coffee. A model evaluating itself is not automatically trustworthy. Sometimes it is self-reflection. Sometimes it is theatre with JSON brackets. ...
