@levie: Almost all AI model and agent progress is downstream from evals. Open weights post training for specific domains comes …
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Almost all AI model and agent progress depends on evaluations (evals). Understanding workflows and agent performance through evals will become a core enterprise competency for driving automation.
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Almost all AI model and agent progress is downstream from evals. Open weights post training for specific domains comes down to evals. Agent improvements in the applied AI layer is all about evals. Agentic enterprise deployments that actually can augment work is all about evals. It’s all evals.
This will become a core competency of any enterprise in the future. The companies that are able to best understand their own (and/or customers) workflows and how well agents participate in that work will be in the best position to actually drive real automation.
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