How to Evaluate Your LLM App: Building a Simple Eval Set

Posted on Sun 25 October 2026 in Tutorial • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, evaluation, evals, testing, Python, prompt-engineering

The Question I Couldn't Answer

For a long time, my process for improving a prompt was embarrassingly simple: change the wording, try two or three inputs, decide it "feels better," and move on. Then one day someone asked me a basic question: "Is the new version actually better than the …


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Why Every AI Demo Looks Perfect (And Why That's a Red Flag)

Posted on Fri 23 October 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, AI-demos, evaluation, AI-literacy, opinion

The Pattern I Keep Noticing

Watch any AI product demo and you'll see the same thing: the assistant understands everything on the first try, the agent finishes a ten-step task without a hiccup, and the answers are crisp, accurate, and perfectly formatted. Then you try the same product yourself and …


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