When someone locks in and starts critically rating everything around them — people, situations, choices — like they're running benchmark tests on real life. Borrowed from AI development culture where 'evals mode' means rigorous quality assessment, it slipped into internet slang to describe that headspace where you're done vibing and strictly judging. You're not just watching the situation unfold; you're grading it. Enters evals mode and suddenly everyone's getting a score out of ten, no curve, no partial credit.
She's been in evals mode since the date ended — already assigned him a 4/10 for choosing that restaurant.
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