A pragmatic guide to LLM evals for devs
Evals are a new toolset for any and all AI engineers – and software engineers should also know about them. Move from guesswork to a systematic engineering process for improving AI quality.
Deepdives A pragmatic guide to LLM evals for devs Evals are a new toolset for any and all AI engineers – and software engineers should also know about them. Move from guesswork to a systematic engineering process for improving AI quality. Gergely Orosz and Hamel Husain Dec 02, 2025 ∙ Paid 430 10 34 Share One word that keeps cropping up when I talk with software engineers who build large language model (LLM)-based solutions is “ evals ”. They use evaluations to verify that LLM solutions work well enough because LLMs are non-deterministic, meaning there’s no guarantee they’ll provide the same an
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