Challenges of Evaluating Agents
Why evaluating agentic systems is fundamentally harder than evaluating static models - the multi-path problem, compound errors, latent failures, and how to build an evaluation mindset.
Why evaluating agentic systems is fundamentally harder than evaluating static models - the multi-path problem, compound errors, latent failures, and how to build an evaluation mindset.
GAIA tests general-purpose agents on real-world tasks requiring web search, file reading, code execution, and multi-step reasoning. Learn the task structure, scoring, SOTA analysis, and how to build GAIA-style evaluations.
When and how to run human evaluation for agentic systems - annotator selection, rubric design, inter-annotator agreement, crowdsourcing quality control, and closing the feedback loop.
Using LLMs to evaluate other agents' trajectories and outputs at scale - rubric design, pairwise comparison, bias mitigation, calibration, and escalation logic.
Evaluation is the most underrated problem in agentic AI. Without it, you cannot improve, catch regressions, or build trust. This module covers trajectory scoring, benchmarks, LLM-as-judge, human evaluation, and production monitoring.
Monitoring agents in production - task completion metrics, distributed tracing, anomaly detection, alerting, and the production improvement flywheel.
SWE-bench Verified is the gold standard for evaluating coding agents on real GitHub issues. Learn the evaluation methodology, Docker harness, failure mode taxonomy, and how to interpret benchmark scores.
Evaluating the full action sequence, not just the final output - trajectory metrics, automatic scoring, and comparing agent versions.