The Bart Test - Part 5: Redesigning From Scratch

After my teens ghosted the frontier model evaluation, I sat with a choice: give up on this whole thing, or try again.

The doubt was real. Maybe the Bart Test would never work. Maybe asking teenagers to evaluate AI-generated slang was fundamentally flawed. But I couldn't shake the insights from [Part 3](/blog/bart-test-part-3-the-zoo-not-duck-problem)—the "zoo not duck" problem, the slang half-life, the "trying too hard" pattern. Those felt real.

So I decided to try again. Not because I was confident it would work, but because I wasn't ready to give up.