AI systems often fail in ways that don’t show up in testing?
Summary
Discusses the common gap between clean benchmark-style testing environments and messy real-world usage in AI workflows, leading to production failures, and mentions evaluation platforms like Confident AI, Braintrust, and Langfuse.
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