Agentic Evals Pyramid • rwilinski.ai
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Building AI agent evals that work: the 3-layer pyramid approach
The following blogpost is co-created with my dear friend @vitorbal. We presented this blogpost as a part of AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025. You can watch it below: Building good AI agents is hard. Building evaluations for them? Even harder. Most companies are doing it backwards: prototype → vibes-based flashy demo → ship to users → profit 💸. Spoiler alert: this fails spectacularly in production. The real secret isn’t avoiding failures. It’s gathering data from every failure, understanding what went wrong, and systematically adapting your models and parameters so you start getting better.…
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