MSManu Shuklainecorpit.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 14 min readLLM tool-use reliability in 2026: how to evaluate models for AI agentsLLM tool-use reliability in 2026: how to evaluate models for AI agents Summary. The benchmark that predicts whether an AI agent survives production is not the one most teams check. The Berkeley τ-benc00
KNKartik N V J Kinkartiknvjk.hashnode.dev·Jul 28 · 7 min readHow I generate LLM test cases that actually catch bugs I got tired of hand-writing test cases for our agent, so I did the obvious 2026 thing: I pointed an LLM at our docs and asked it to generate them. In an afternoon I had a few thousand. I felt incredib00
AAAwais Ahmadinblog.itsahmadawais.com·Jul 28 · 8 min readLLM Evaluation for Engineers: Building Reliable AI ApplicationsWhen building traditional software, engineers write tests to make sure code works correctly. Every time you change a feature or update a package, automated tests run to catch bugs before they reach re00
KNKartik N V J Kinkartiknvjk.hashnode.dev·Jul 23 · 7 min readEvaluating an intent classifier: what I check beyond accuracyI built the intent router that sits at the front of our support agent. It reads what a user typed and decides which pipeline handles it. I tested it on a nice balanced set, got 92 percent accuracy, an00
AHAkash Hadagali Persettiinakashpersetti.hashnode.dev·Jul 20 · 9 min readMy eval leaderboard published a negative retry countI was looking at the EvalBench dashboard a few weeks ago and one cell stopped me: Retries to valid 0.125 95% CI -0.035 – 0.285 n=40 A negative number of retries. You cannot retry a request negative-p00
ACAlexander Codesinalexandercodes.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 9 min readHow to Evaluate LLM Answers with the dbt Semantic LayerAn AI assistant can produce a perfectly valid MetricFlow query, and still answer the wrong question. It might choose the wrong metric, dimension, filter, or time grain. The query runs, the result look00
Mmayaanderssoninllmasajudge.hashnode.dev·Jul 1 · 7 min readI reviewed six "operator-ready" checklists for AI agents. None of them define the problem correctly.The industry has converged on a definition of "operator-ready" that is measurable, deployable, and wrong. The most cited frameworks, Anthropic's "Building Effective Agents" (December 2024), Hamel Husa00
Mmayaanderssoninllmasajudge.hashnode.dev·Jun 29 · 7 min readWe added synthetic data to our eval set. The pass rate rose, and so did our production incidentsWe needed a bigger eval set, so we generated one. A model wrote a few thousand test cases that looked like our traffic, we scored against them, the pass rate went up, and we felt good. Then production00
VIVictor Isuoinvictorisuo.hashnode.dev·Jun 27 · 11 min readWhy I Built a Separate Evaluation System Before Trusting My Own AIThe Industrial AI Copilot had been running for three weeks when I realised I had no idea whether it was actually working. Not in the catastrophic sense — no exceptions, no crashes, no hallucinations I00
Mmayaanderssoninllmasajudge.hashnode.dev·Jun 25 · 5 min readI checked six LLM-as-judge tools against human labels. The scoreboard was the wrong thing to read.Most LLM-as-judge comparisons rank tools by which one gives you a number fastest. That is the wrong axis. A judge you have not validated against human labels is not a measurement, it is a vibe with a 00