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A Model Evaluation Playbook for Real Work

Evaluation becomes useful when test cases represent business consequences, difficult edge cases and the way users actually interact with a system.

BELFORT AI Engineering21 August 20267 min read
AI engineers evaluating model quality

Generic benchmarks help compare foundations, but product teams need tests connected to their users, policies and failure costs.

Build a living evaluation set

Start with real tasks, add known failures, label severity and review the set whenever the product or source data changes.