Product Evals in Three Simple Steps

Label some data, align LLM-evaluators, and run the eval harness with each change.

Product Evals in Three Simple Steps eugeneyan Start Here Writing Speaking Prototyping About Product Evals in Three Simple Steps [ eval engineering production ] · 9 min read After repeating myself for the $n^\text{th}$ time on how to build product evals, I figured I should write it down. There are three basic steps: (i) labeling a small dataset, (ii) aligning our LLM evaluators, and (iii) running the experiment + evaluation harness with each config change. First, label some data It begins with sampling some input and output from our LLM requests, and labeling whether the output meets our evalua

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