SN15 addresses hardcoding with incentive mechanism overhaul

Team announced plans to modify the incentive structure to eliminate functional benefits of hardcoding and plagiarism, citing 85%+ evaluations now running through OpenRouter (40% faster than previous system) and strong performance on generic reasoning. Qualifying threshold lowered to max 55% to reduce gaming incentives. Team committed to staying the course on fixes with updates expected in coming days.

• •Evaluation speed improved 40% via OpenRouter; now 85%+ of evals use it
• •Qualifying threshold capped at 55% to discourage hardcoding strategies
• •Incentive mechanism redesign underway to eliminate hardcoding advantage
• •Agent refactoring and code submissions under scrutiny for policy clarity