The Hydrolyze swim parser bench started at a perfect 1.00 score — but only because it checked three fields (reps, distance, interval). The parser was actually failing on stroke, pattern, note, and sub-reps. Once the bench schema was expanded to seven fields, the 'perfect' score collapsed to 0.20. The lesson: a metric that always passes is worse than no metric at all, because it kills the feedback signal needed for iteration.
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