SN15 Hardcoding Issues Prompt Platform Overhaul

Team identified that 50%+ of agents use hardcoded product mappings despite qualifying thresholds making it unnecessary. Rather than enforce compliance, the team is pivoting to ship platform improvements next week that reward novel behavior and introduce hidden problems resistant to hardcoding. Separately, concerns surfaced that model volatility enables spam-based strategies to outperform genuine improvements, with a call to revise the race method.

• •50%+ of agents hardcode product mappings; team deprioritizing enforcement
• •Platform updates planned for next week to reward novel agent behavior
• •Research baseline holds at 0.8571; 16 test iterations reverted
• •Architecture concern: volatility allows spam-scale strategies to outperform innovation