DGDebashish Ghosalinpragmatic-engineer.hashnode.dev·Sep 16 · 7 min read7 Agent Eval Mistakes That Cost Me Weeks (And the One-Line Fixes That Ended Them)You've been there. You run the eval, the number comes back, and something about it doesn't sit right. But the number is the number, so you move on. Three weeks later you find out the number was never 00
SDSagnik Deyinstop-gate.hashnode.dev·Sep 10 · 12 min readWhat a frontier coding agent actually does when the tests are wrongEveryone building in this space cites ImpossibleBench: frontier models exploit test cases in a large fraction of runs where the specification and the tests conflict. Far fewer people run a detector ag02A
Mmayaanderssoninllmasajudge.hashnode.dev·Aug 25 · 12 min readDividing your RAG score by retrieval recall overstates your generation quality, and here is by how muchAlmost every RAG eval writeup I read, including several I have recommended, uses the same mental model. The system is two stages in series. Retrieval either finds the right context or it does not, wit00
Mmarcuscheninvoicelatency.hashnode.dev·Aug 10 · 8 min readTwo weeks before launch, every turn was green and the call still diedThe dashboard was a wall of green. Word error rate under 5 percent. Intent classification at 94 percent on our eval set. Response appropriateness, graded by a rubric we trusted, sitting comfortably in00
Mmarcuscheninvoicelatency.hashnode.dev·Aug 5 · 6 min readThe voice A/B test that picked the worse agent, and won by 4 pointsWe ran a clean A/B test between two versions of a phone agent. Variant B won by 4 points on our success metric. We shipped B. Two weeks later the escalation rate to human agents had gone up, and the "00
VKVamsi Krishnainblog.vamsiannamreddy.com·Jul 27 · 2 min readA clean connector does not make a reliable agentYour integration tests pass. Every tool returns what it should, schemas validate, errors are structured. The agent still spent forty tool calls going in a circle and then confidently reported a result13JVC
Mmarcuscheninvoicelatency.hashnode.dev·Jul 26 · 5 min readOur voice agent scored 91 percent. The callers still hung up angry.Two weeks after we launched the support line, the dashboard was the color you want. Task-success rate: 91 percent. The agent booked the appointment, reset the password, quoted the balance. Green acros00
Mmayaanderssoninllmasajudge.hashnode.dev·Jul 22 · 8 min readAn LLM judge is a biased instrument, not a measurementLast month I shipped an eval that ranked two prompt variants. Variant A won by four points. A teammate reran the same eval the next morning and Variant B won. Same model, same judge, same test set. Th00
Mmayaanderssoninllmasajudge.hashnode.dev·Jul 21 · 8 min readYour eval dashboard has 30 metrics. When one "moves," that is usually arithmetic, not a regression.Here is the ritual. You ship a prompt change, rerun the eval suite, and open the dashboard. Thirty numbers sit there: faithfulness, answer relevance, context precision, toxicity, latency-adjusted qual00
DSDarsh Shahinfreecodecamp.org·Jul 17 · 12 min readHow to Evaluate AI Agents with an LLM-as-a-Judge Harness in PythonIn this tutorial, I'll show you how to evaluate a local AI agent with a simple, repeatable evaluation harness. The harness runs the agent against a set of test cases, checks the results with both rule10