Level 5: AI / LLM systems · L5.6 Evals & guardrails
How do you know it works? Error analysis first
Start evals from real failures, not generic metrics.
12 min · Pro
What you take away
- Read forty real traces and name the failure modes before choosing a single metric; the sorted list of modes is the specification for your eval suite.
And 3 more inside the class, in Pro.
How the class is laid out
- The problem
- Where learner drivers actually crash
- The method, in five steps
- Check your understanding