A judge is useful only when its criterion is calibrated against human evidence, disagreement is measured, and bias, variance, and stability are separated before using it as an acceptance signal.
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The ideas to retain
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Define what "calibration" means first
In this chapter, judge calibration means an operational process: validate one concrete grader version against independent decisions and controlled cases before scaling it.
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Choose the narrowest grader that answers the question
Do not use an LLM to judge a property that can be checked exactly.
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Deterministic
Use deterministic checks when there is a verifiable invariant: