The integration realism point is what separates useful evals from academic exercises. An agent that passes every unit test in a sandbox can still fail the moment it touches a real API with rate limits and stale data. The hardest part is not writing the eval, it is building a test environment that is realistic enough to matter. What is your approach to mocking external dependencies?
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The integration realism point is what separates useful evals from academic exercises. An agent that passes every unit test in a sandbox can still fail the moment it touches a real API with rate limits and stale data. The hardest part is not writing the eval, it is building a test environment that is realistic enough to matter. What is your approach to mocking external dependencies?