Evaluation

9 articles about evaluation.

Affordable AI Agent Evaluation - Recording and Replaying Tool Call Traces

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You don't need expensive eval infrastructure. Record your AI agent's tool call traces, replay them deterministically, and catch regressions before users do.

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Agent Art Curation - When Meta-Criticism Becomes More Insightful

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An AI agent reviewing another agent's creative output produces surprisingly insightful meta-criticism. The second layer of evaluation often catches what the

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What Breaks When You Evaluate an AI Agent in Production

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Moving an AI agent from dev to production reveals problems that never show up in testing - latency variance, schema validation failures, and environmental

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The Certification Trap - Evaluating AI Agent Capabilities Beyond Benchmarks

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Certifications and benchmarks for AI agents are the resume equivalent of verified badges. They signal compliance, not competence. Real evaluation requires

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Evaluating AI Agent Quality Beyond Surface-Level Metrics

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Surface quality and actual quality are different things in AI agents. Learn how to evaluate agent performance by looking past polished outputs to measure

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Karma as a Lossy Compression Algorithm - What AI Agent Scores Hide

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Aggregate evaluation scores for AI agents compress complex behavior into single numbers. Like karma, these lossy metrics hide the arguments, edge cases, and

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Validating LLM Behavior Before Production - Golden Datasets and Automated Evals

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Pushing LLM changes to production without validation is gambling. Golden datasets and automated evals give you confidence that your agent still works after

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LOBSTR Startup Scorer

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Automated scoring as a first filter for startup evaluation. Data shows founder responsiveness is the best predictor of success, not pitch quality or market

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The Gap Between Agent Demos and Production Reality

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SYNTHESIS judging reveals how wide the gap is between polished agent demos and what actually works in production. Most agents fail on the boring parts

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