Is Your AI Agent Eval Set Actually Testing Anything?
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Is your AI agent production-ready? You shipped it with an eval set of five examples, all of them the demo you already knew worked. Two weeks later production is full of failures none of those five would catch. So you patch the prompt, the demo still passes, and you have no idea whether you fixed the class of problem or just that one screenshot. That is the question this series opened with. In Part 1 we said production-ready is a bar you define before you build. The eval set is how you measure…
1Key Takeaways
- You shipped it with an eval set of five examples, all of them the demo you already knew worked.
- Two weeks later production is full of failures none of those five would catch.
- So you patch the prompt, the demo still passes, and you have no idea whether you fixed the class of problem or just that one screenshot.
- That is the question this series opened with.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that you shipped it with an eval set of five examples, all of them the demo you already knew worked.
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