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  • How To Use Decision Models for Evals

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    Decision models have exploded onto the scene recently, starting with TypeSafe’s Jev, followed by Perplexity’s Decider, Liquid’s d1, Cloudflare’s Clef, and OpenAI’s Decisions API 1 . These models promise fast, inexpensive classification. Decision models are an appealing low-cos…

  • Claude’s new auto eval tool

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    Anthropic released new eval tooling for Claude Code . Their claude-api plugin now includes a new build_eval and hill-climb command that helps you build evals, check the graders, and improve your application against them. I usually don’t review eval tools because software chang…

  • AI Evals: Everything You Need to Know

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    This document curates the most common questions Shreya and I received while teaching 5,000+ engineers and PMs AI Evals. Warning: These are sharp opinions about what works in most cases. They are not universal truths. Use your judgment. How to use this FAQ Browse the questions …

  • AI Product Engineering Notes

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    Notes from 13 sessions on evals, context, and systems. 9.5 hours of talks distilled into about 20 minutes of reading.

  • “It’s Hard to Eval” Is a Product Smell

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    For the past 3 years, AI evals have been my professional focus. 1 The most common objection I hear to evals is “our product is hard to eval”. This objection is a product smell. Artifacts that are hard for you to verify are often hard for users too. In the worst case, users hav…

  • The Revenge of the Data Scientist

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    Is the heyday of the data scientist over? The Harvard Business Review once called it “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” 1 In tech, data scientist roles were often among the best paid. 2 The job also demanded an unusual mix of skills: Data Scientist (n.): Person who is bett…

  • Evals Skills for Coding Agents

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    Today, Shreya Shankar and I are publishing evals skills , a set of skills for AI product evals 1 . Eval tools often get in the way. They nudge you toward generic off-the-shelf metrics and fully automated evals before you’ve looked at your data. These skills help you avoid comm…

  • Why I Stopped Using nbdev

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    Programmers love to proclaim they’ve found the best tool. Paul Graham called Lisp his “ secret weapon .” DHH described Ruby as “ a magical glove that just fit my brain perfectly .” Pieter Levels ships million-dollar products with vanilla PHP and jQuery . These declarations are…

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