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Evaluator-Optimizer: Iterative Refinement with a Separate Critic LLM

Mar 9, 2026·7 min·AI

Some tasks improve on a second pass, but only when the critic is a separate LLM with its own mandate. Asking a generator to grade its own work produces confident praise for mediocre output.

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